The Stand (2020) - CBS All Access - No Book Spoilers

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#1

This was being discussed briefly in the Stephen King thread, but I figure no one will find it in there. So here we go.

No spoilers from the previous series or book please.

I figured the main character was a stand in for Stephen King himself. A weird horror fiction writer kid who lives in Maine. Of course when the apocalypse comes, this kid seems a little too eager for it. And he’s super creepy. So maybe he’s not a stand-in for Stephen King.

The suicides and attempted suicides in the first episode are the only thing that made me uncomfortable watching the first episode. It made the whole thing feel a little too dark.

#2

Good luck!

#3

I’d love to hear from anyone who watches this how the ending turns out. I read somewhere that King rewrote it for this miniseries.

#4

I don’t remember this character from the book. Been a long time though.

King has too many of his protags as writers. I guess he’s a write what you know guy?

#5

Without any spoilers, the character Rock8Man is talking about is from the book. I haven’t watched the episode yet, but from the review I read the book introduces some characters in a different order than the book.

I just read The Stand for the first time last year and I’m very eager to watch this, but primarily out of curiosity. I have no particular expectations.

#6

I remember a young person who liked one of the main females in the book, but I don’t remember him being a writer. It could have been mentioned and I simply forgot.

#7

Did all the episodes of this drop or do they do the one episode per week thing on CBS all excess?

#8

One episode per week. Just like with their other shows on CBS All Access.

So just the first episode is out right now.

#9

Ugh. I don’t like the weekly drop when it’s a subscription service.

Any idea how many episodes it will be?

#10

From the Wiki page:

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I guess if you want to binge the whole thing, the time to subscribe will be in February.

#11

I actually just read this over the last summer and thought it still held up incredibly well as a great book, though then just a few months after I finished it the pandemic hit and I regretted everything. That said, no such character is in the book as @Rock8man is describing in that first post (I haven’t seen the episode).

EDIT: Just saw @Woolen_Horde say this IS from the book, so I’m not sure who the writer was. If you mean Harold, calling him a fiction writer is a wild adjective to grab onto to describe him, of all the things he is in the book.

#12

Yeah, pretty sure Rock8man is talking about Harold Lauter.

#13

Maybe a better description is that he fancies himself a fiction writer? He got a lot of rejection letters.

#14

Yeah, that’s probably true - it’s not something that comes up much in the books - he’s like a 16 year old kid when we meet him iirc.

#15

Heck of a book to read right before a pandemic occurs. I’d say this, Salem’s Lot, Christine, and some of his short stories and novellas are my favorites by King.

#16

Yeah, throw Pet Sematary in there and that’s pretty much my list of favorite King books.

#17

Pet Sematary would have been the next title in my list!

#18

Maybe I’m a little weird but I got the vibe that those were from girls. “Letters” might be a bit of a stretch

#19

In the first episode, they were rejection letters from Publishers saying no to publishing his fiction.

#20

Maybe he could have used some professional advice