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This weeks episode of The Stand, The House of the Dead saw the introduction of Julie Lawry. Played by Katherine McNamara, Julie is a far different character than fans have seen from the actress, best known for her more heroic roles as Clary Fray on Freeforms Shadowhunters and as Mia Smoak on [...]

I don’t know about you, but a virus series is the last thing I want to sit through right now. Then again, a lot of people flocked to Contagion, Outbreak and #Alive has apparently done well for Netflix. The Stand is a 9 part adaptation of Stephen King’s 1978 novel (another screened in just 4 parts in 1994) ironically completed filming just before COVID-19 gripped much of the western world. King has written a new coda for his story. The limited series comes with an impressive cast, includin...

The Stand: How "Blank Page" Differs from Stephen Kings Book The third episode of The Stand debuted on CBS All Access Thursday and introduced a few more major characters to the story while further expanded the stories of some weve already met, such as Larry Underwood (Jovan Adepo) and Nadine Cross (Amber Heard). New this week are the story for Nick Andros (Henry Zaga) as well as the introductions of Glen Bateman (Greg Kinnear) and Tom Cullen (Brad William Henke). While the nine-part limited ser...

The Stand: How "Pocket Savior" Differs from Stephen Kings Book The second episode of The Stand debuted on CBS All Access on Thursday and while last weeks "The End" introduced viewers to a handful of the storys major characters as well as the terrifying super flu that brings their paths together, this weeks "Pocket Savior" introduces viewers to even more significant characters -- including a proper introduction to Randall Flagg. However, while the nine-part limited series is largely a faithful ...

The new CBS All Access limited series The Stand may, for many viewers, feel a bit eerily of the moment. The series, an adaptation of Stephen Kings epic novel of the same name, sees humanity ravaged by a terrifying pandemic and while the story isnt simply about the pandemic -- theres a good [...]

Jovan Adepo Talks the Most Difficult Part of Making The Stand The Stand, Pocket Savior, introduced viewers to another major character in the series, Larry Underwood. Played by Jovan Adepo, Larry is a musician whose music career doesnt quite go as planned when he ends up one of the few to survive the Captain Trips pandemic. The episode sees Larry and fellow survivor Rita Blakemoor (Heather Graham) needing to escape New York at the start of what will ultimately be a journey west. And while leavin...

The Stand: Nat Wolff on the Allure of Playing Randall Flaggs Right Hand Man The StandNat Wolff plays Lloyd Henreid, a criminal who goes from being forgotten in jail as the Captain Trips pandemic decimates the population to Randall Flaggs right hand man. Like many of the characters in the latest adaptation of Stephen Kings iconic novel, Lloyd is a complex and not entirely black and white character and for Wolff, that was part of the allure of getting to play him. Speaking with ComicBook.com, Wol...

The Stand: The Different Versions of Stephen Kings Story Explained The Stand limited series debuts on the streaming platform on Thursday, December 24th and if the series premiere episode is any indicator, many Stephen King fans will notice some differences between the master of horrors novel and this latest, live-action telling of the dystopian tale which sees a showdown between good and evil among the survivors of a horrific global pandemic. But while any adaptation prompts comparison between ...

Copy to Clipboard Spoilers for ‘The Stand’ on CBS All Access and Stephen Kings 1978 book Mystery and tragedy fill the second episode of ‘The Stand’. Based on Stephen Kings 1978 novel, the tale shifts from introducing Frannie Goldsmith (Odessa Young), Harold Lauder (Owen Teague), and Stu Redman (James Marsden) to showing a glimpse of the lives of Larry Underwood (Jovan Adepo) and Lloyd Henreid (Nat Wolff). Instead of following the linear narrative of the book, the series uses...

The Stand Cast James Marsden as Stu Redman; Odessa Young as Frannie Goldsmith; Owen Teague as Harold Lauder; Alexander Skarsgård as Randall Flagg; Whoopi Goldberg as Mother Abagail; Jovan Adepo as Larry Underwood; Amber Heard as Nadine Cross; Henry Zaga as Nick Andros; Brad William Henke as Tom Cullen; Greg Kinnear as Glen Bateman; Irene Bedard as Ray Brentner; Nat Wolff as Lloyd Henreid Network The end of the world never looked so phlegmy. Forget the zombies. Forget the giant meteor...