Station Eleven’s Finale Offers the Pandemic Catharsis We Don’t Yet Have

Warning: spoilers for the Station Eleven finale ahead. In a way, Station Eleven was designed to fail. It’s tough enough to entice viewers to watch a show centered on a deadly pandemic as year two of our own rages on; ending it in a way that offers hope without false platitudes or tidy lessons seemed nearly impossible. But despite the odds, Station Eleven, based on Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling novel and adapted by The Leftovers’ Patrick Somerville, sticks the landing—delivering an end that releases its characters’ pain without erasing their scars. The series finale, “Unbroken Circle,” begins by sealing… Read Full Article