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The Stand (TV Miniseries)

The Stand

2020

Josh Boone (Creator), Benjamin Cavell (Creator) ...

Alexander Skarsgård, James Marsden, Jovan Adepo, Whoopi Goldberg ...

5.1

839

TV Series. Fantasy. Horror. Adventure. Drama TV Miniseries (2020). 7 Episodes. After the mass destruction caused by a manmade virus called "Captain Trips." A false messiah emerges, possessing incredible powers and hellbent to rule the remaining human society. It's up to a group of people to journey the post-apocalyptic wasteland to stop him and his army.

	Author	Review
United States	Roxana Hadadi Variety	"Uneven Stephen King adaptation 'The Stand' can’t quite convey its apocalyptic stakes"	NEU
Denmark	Karina Adelgaard Heaven of Horror	"Whatever your feelings may be, you should give this adaptation a chance because it’s extremely relevant and has an awesome cast"	POS
United States	Vinnie Mancuso AV Club	"This Stephen King adaptation is chilling and has a great cast, but a 'Lost'-like structure creates more confusion than mystery."	NEU
United States	Keith Phipps TV Guide	"The series' generous budget keeps its post-apocalyptic America convincing and its tense moments deliver the scares (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Alan Sepinwall Rolling Stone	"An improvement on the ABC version (...) But this new Stand is troubling from the start — or, rather, from where it starts. For some baffling reason, this new version opts to begin in the middle (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Warren Cantrell The Playlist	"Tired of global pandemics yet? CBS All-Access hopes not, and for a good reason: their nine-episode adaptation of Stephen King’s 1141-page behemoth, 'The Stand,' is damn good"	POS
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"Scene-for-scene, there are beats that are a little disturbing or a little scary, but glued together with insufficient artistry or consideration, there's no way for anything to build"	NEU
United States	Randall Colburn AV Club	"The story’s supernatural elements are its most confounding and problematic (...) [It] can make it feel as if the creative team isn’t quite sure what to do with them"	NEU
United States	Jen Chaney The Washington Post	"A disjointed, tonally inconsistent work that manages to both over-condense aspects of the original saga"	NEU
United States	John Anderson The Wall Street Journal	"The spirit and dread of Mr. King’s epic have been successfully, if more succinctly, incorporated into the series."	POS
United States	Hank Stuever The Washington Post	"This adaptation, which starts off succinctly, starts to strain as soon as it has to shoulder the biblical proportions. “The Stand” works better as a study in survivalist pluck than as a theological thunderdome."	NEU
United States	Kelly Lawler USA Today	An overly complicated structure and poor pacing renders a story that should be epic in scale and impact to just another lackluster 'Walking Dead' knockoff (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Ben Travers IndieWire	"[It] feels like it’s stuck in time; half a cheesy made-for-broadcast event series, half a gritty, all-too-dark dive into the bottom barrels of prestige TV"	NEG
United States	Allison Shoemaker rogerebert.com	"It’s a sometimes dazzling, often frustrating, and undeniably assured effort that swings hard and occasionally connects. When it does, it’s riveting television; when it doesn’t, well, it’s not boring."	NEU

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