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Entertainment Disclaimer: This review is based on the first 4 (out of 9) episodes of ‘The Stand’ 'The Stand', Stephen King’s sprawling 1978 novel is heavy material for adaptation, even in the form of a multi-season show. It has enough characters and story arcs to warrant a whole film-verse so the mammoth task of translating it for the small screen in a limited series is no joke. And then there is a whole fandom that swears this book is the best of the best works of the author, you get how high the stakes are? But here we are, watching director Josh Boone and showrunner Benjamin Cavell t...

The Stand Feels Both Timely and Overwhelming Share Mother Abagail (Whoopi Goldberg) summons you...unless you're Team Flagg. (Image: CBS All Access) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. The Stand came out in 2020. Much like the year itself, the story begins with a pandemic and goes on to showcase some truly awful human behaviour. CBS All Access certainly has timeliness on its side �...

For Subscribers Don’t draw too many parallels to new series based on ‘The Stand,’ Stephen King says The story about a deadly infectious disease that wipes out most of humanity, premiering as a series on CBS All Access this week. Share In the recent series based on Stephen King's "The Stand," locations in western Canada stood in for Ogunquit. Photo by Robert Falconer/CBS The first episode of the new TV series “The Stand” has some eerie similarities to what’s going on in the world today, including news reports of an infectious disease spreading quickly through the population and g...

How’s this for eerily relatable entertainment: On The Stand, a nine-episode thriller based on Stephen King’s 1978 bestseller, a deadly global pandemic strikes, dividing Americans. But this catastrophe makes our real-life virus struggle look puny in comparison. The fictional superflu kills 99 percent of the world’s population, and after the survivors rebuild civilization, opposing factions clash in a deadly battle. Plus, everyone’s having extremely weird visions. At least no one’s hoarding toilet paper. “It was very surreal coming to the end of production just as COVID was start...