Station Eleven Ending, Real Meaning & Book Changes Explained
Warning! This post contains Major Spoilers for Station Eleven.
The HBO limited series Station Eleven has many intertwined characters and stories, so there's no doubt the show's ending has left many viewers with lingering questions. Station Eleven follows survivors of a worldwide flu pandemic that kills most of the Earth's population. The show stars Mackenzie Davis as the Traveling Symphony's star actress Kirsten, Gael Garcia Bernal as Arthur Leander, who died on stage at the start of the pandemic, Lori Petty as Symphony co-founder Sarah and many others.
Station Eleven, is based on the novel by the same name, written by Emily St. John Mandel and published in 2014. The book was a critical success, winning the Arthur C. Clarke award. It was also nominated for the National Book Award and has sold over 1.5 million copies. The limited series was created by Patrick Somerville, who previously served as a writer for The Leftovers and Maniac. Just as with his previous work, Somerville focuses on the human relationships that are crucial to his worldbuilding in Station Eleven.
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The miniseries focuses especially on an inter-linked group of survivors who view the pandemic and its aftermath very differently. By combining and co-mingling these groups, along with other survivors, the show examines not only the imagined world of Station Eleven, but also the real world and its current COVID-19 pandemic, as well. Utilizing his patented magical realism and off-kilter, non-linear storytelling, Somerville brings the dystopian Station Eleven to life in the harrowing, ten-episode series.
Strangely enough, the hub of Station Eleven's connected stories is the man who died in the first episode — Arthur
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