Based on a hit novel, the show is brutal but hopeful.
Actress Matilda Lawler plays the role of young Kirsten Raymonde in the HBO Max series"Station Eleven," based on the novel by Emily St. John Mandel.In my role as copy chief at SFGATE, I have also become our official pandemic timekeeper, marking the days, since the first cases were reported , since the pandemic was declared , since the first shelter-in-place orders were announced in the Bay Area .
So as I watched the first episode of HBO Max’s “Station Eleven” unfold, which featured title cards marking time , I felt my chest tighten with recognition. I knew this feeling, this endless marking out of days, the way they seem to trudge by and also vanish, lurching you into an unforeseen future. “Station Eleven” is a post-apocalyptic drama based on the novel of the same name by Emily St. John Mandel about a flu that sweeps through the world almost overnight, killing millions and leaving the few survivors to reckon with what it means to go on when civilization falls.
The story involves a famous actor trying to launch a late-career renaissance, a religious zealot and a Shakespearean acting troupe known as the Traveling Symphony, but at the heart is a comic book called “Station Eleven.” “Station Eleven,” the comic, follows a mysterious character named Doctor Eleven who floats through space before finding himself on a stalled space station inhabited by warring factions.
Two children, Kirsten and Tyler, both find themselves with copies of the rare comic book around the time of the plague, reading it obsessively. When we see them as adults, 20 years after civilization has collapsed, they are both defined by the story. Tyler becomes a sort of Pied Piper, luring children away from settlements of “pre-pan” survivors with “the prophecy,” a retelling of Doctor Eleven’s story in which “there is no before.
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