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The Stand: How "Pocket Savior" Differs from Stephen King's Book The second episode of The Stand debuted on CBS All Access on Thursday and while last week's "The End" introduced viewers to a handful of the story's major characters as well as the terrifying super flu that brings their paths together, this week's "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 adaptation of Stephen King's epic novel of the same name, this episode also contained some signi...

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 doesn't 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 leaving the city is only the start of things for Larry, according to Adepo it's that escape that containe...

Copy to Clipboard Spoilers for 'The Stand' Episode 2 'Pocket Savior' CBS All Access’ Stephen King adaptation, ‘The Stand’, set the stage for the horror author’s apocalyptic vision in the first episode. The show depicts a world decimated by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil. Episode 1 saw a weaponized strain of influenza (dubbed “Captain Trips”) kill almost the entire world population, leaving a handful of survivors — it has a supposed fatality rate of 99 percent.  Of them, Stu Redman (James Marsden) from Arnette, Texas, Fra...

“Pocket Savior” hits a little harder than The Stand’s sprawling and middling pilot. This is a story about the choices different people make at the end of the world, and those choices often have immediate consequences. It’s a high-stakes strategy game.

Copy to Clipboard Spoilers for ‘The Stand’ on CBS All Access and Stephen King's 1978 book Mystery and tragedy fill the second episode of ‘The Stand’. Based on Stephen King's 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 flashback formula to peep into the characters' lives. After ‘The End’ ended on a my...