![]() ![]() The first concerns the early days and years of the pandemic. There are – as is starting to feel mandatory with small-screen dramas – two timelines. Now the television adaptation by Patrick Somerville (known for Maniac and The Leftovers) for HBO, streaming in the UK on Starzplay, is here and … resonating. I read Emily St John Mandel’s bestselling Station Eleven shortly after it came out in 2014, when the tale of a mysterious flu sweeping the globe and laying waste to normal life lay wholly beyond the bounds of reality. H ow deeply strange it is, how deeply unsettling, to be able to compare and contrast a fictional pandemic with the real thing. ![]()
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