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'Station Eleven' by HBO Review: A beautifully crafted story on hope and loss@namiks1234d

It is quite a rare event these days that I stumble across a modern series and I find myself completely obsessed with it. Entirely engulfed in all it has to offer and still surprised at how each episode progresses. I can't recall the last time I found myself binging through a new series out of sheer addiction, one episode after the other, very rapidly noticing the show coming to its inevitable end. I wrote about Station Eleven's incredibly strong introduction recently, and looking back I feel I had no idea what I was getting myself into, unaware of what this show really is. I feel stupid for believing it would just be a good, but typical apocalyptic show that displays characters within a dystopian wasteland. Its first episode certainly set up this assumption, only to completely shift directions and pursue something much more meaningful.

Station Eleven, with just ten episodes, is a miniseries that I struggle to believe was made today. Exceeding my expectations and holding a quality that just does not seem normal for what essentially is just yet another original series made for a streaming service. In this case, that streaming service is HBO Max. Some may be aware of HBO's historical quality in series, mostly for ones significantly longer and not so much the miniseries side of things. I would argue that Station Eleven sits in a league of its own in this modern original content creating era. A gem that came out of nowhere and then left. Leaving an impact and series of emotions that I'm sure much of us felt very recently, as it held some resemblance to the pandemic; a narrative detailing a world wiped out by a flu we don't understand. The fears, the society, and the ways it impacted us all very much connected to the characters, though removing the flu idea from much of its narrative and instead focusing on the humanity both before, during the event, and after.

To say Station Eleven is a post-apocalyptic dystopian series almost feels like a stretch, because it hardly is one. It's more like a strange, poetic dream. Surely with some elements of horror, dystopia, and those end of the world snippets, but it almost feels as if it distances itself from these. Just using the flu narrative as a framework of connecting characters and stories together, going deeper into something much greater.

I'll avoid from mentioning large spoilers here, but I may discuss a few light events or characters and meanings that one may consider a spoiler.

Station Eleven

The first episode of Station Eleven takes place around the time the flu begins to spread around Chicago -- which I annoyingly assumed was actually New York City due to its similarities in the visuals in my initial first impressions post -- but surrounded by a group of artistic individuals. Attending a play and witnessing the slow events of the flu playing out in real-time. Sick individuals, people collapsing, news reports and phone calls from those in hospitals. Everything sets up this very anxiety inducing series of events that show a great problem slowly, but in actuality, rapidly unfolding. It's rare that I feel anxiety from watching something, but this first episode really did have me on edge. Though I failed to notice that the show was really setting up its main characters, of which are all living under anxiety for their own reasons.

The first episode ends on quite a high, but it was the show's second episode that almost completely filtered me. Fast-forwarding in time to the future after the flu outbreak, to a time where humanity seems to have gotten over the flu, but now survives in a few small settlements. A character now part of a traveling symphony that roams the wasteland and performs theatrical plays for others. Spreading art and humanity throughout the land as they travel from one location to another; this group of people somewhat seen as celebrities for their nomadic and artistic ventures in such a time. While it was shot well, it was a total shift from the first episode, I felt a bit lost and confused as to what the show wanted to say and where it was going as it introduced characters that didn't feel so connected and important. But surely, the show finds it's footing, and begins to flourish. Connecting the last, present, and the idea of the future together in each episode, roaming through different characters to display the events that led to where they are now.

At first I didn't really like the more present segments, showcasing this travelling symphony that focused on art and philosophy. It seemed a bit pretentious and not quite certain of where the story was going. But the more I watched it, the more the characters began to connect. Becoming more human, with more depth to their emotions and who they actually are as people. Not just performers, but survivors with regrets, ambitions, and struggles. We see the connection to art and spreading happiness to others as a way to spread hope and emotion, but the story doesn't rely on this as it weaves between time periods. And the way it does this is so, so good. I found myself getting so stupidly immersed in the show. Loving every moment and really engaged in each character it slowly began to connect to another. Showing this group of people as a web of emotions, each story somehow connected.

While I continued to find the scenes of the travelling actors not as interesting as the rest of the show, I really loved the way the show constantly switched between time periods. We see how many of these people never really gave up who they are, and continue to explore the things that gave them more purpose in the past. Promoting the idea that the future must be one full of art and the sharing of ideas. Preserving the past while not necessarily clinging to it. This idea I will explore a bit more in this post. Though these scenes instead show the negative outcome of clinging to the past, detailing the ways we cling to struggles and ambitions, haunting us and driving us forward even if it seems we are stuck. The flu is no longer the main threat in the world, and it seems that most just fear a future they don't know. What is to come? Where are things headed? A prophecy surrounding a graphic novel named Station Eleven becomes prevalent within these scenes, which has a generally loose plot compared to the rest of the show. This property is more a metaphor for hope, however. Again displaying how humanity clings to the idea of a future, pulling at any source of potential hope in efforts to pursue purpose and reason to continue pushing forward. And it becomes evident that our characters are very much lost.

The end of the world isn't the end of your world

Many shows of this nature tend to explore an action and horror packed world in which survival is a struggle. Station Eleven mixes between this idea and a future wasteland in which general peace is easier to achieve, while purpose is not. There is this idea that the end of the world is the end of your own personal world, which is completely false. And Station Eleven thrives on this idea, pushing into the realm of each person's internal struggles through life and how such a massive event such as a pandemic caused such a dramatic shift in their lives. This shift resulting in a constant haunting of regrets, past events of loss and struggles. We weave back into the past to see these regrets and emotional turmoil. The characters revealing slowly who they really are, telling their stories in a very emotional and personal manner that doesn't display them in a negative way at all. We feel for each of them as a result, making us really connect to these survivors and even relating to them.

I loved this so much about the show, and how as it progressed its characters only got more interesting. We even have some mystery appearing as we aren't sure which ones have survived and how. Time passes by so quickly as a result of the constant shifting in time periods, allowing the show to display the ways that our pasts follow us into the future, remaining in our minds and tormenting us. Closure of course being such in an important thing in our lives, but how do we deal with our lives when closure just isn't possible? Say a pandemic cuts your life in half and everything changes within an instant. The people you knew you no longer know; did they survive? How did they really feel about you? What do you wish you had done differently? The idea of the pandemic cuts through like a strong midlife crisis, suddenly making the characters aware of their own existences and how fragile everything truly is. But if course none are perfect, and these regrets are an inevitable aspect of just being human. Humanity itself being such a fragile topic in the show, as we've seen people wanting to protect and spread humanity in the future, though humanity perhaps not being as present in the past.

Character development is evident as we see the ways characters dealt with the pandemic spreading. For some, challenges came and approached them in ways they never assumed they can deal with them. Some took up incredible responsibilities to care for others, some were too occupied with work and noticing the neglect of their loved ones, though now it's too late. Others remain too disconnected from everything and caught up in their own egos that they never really got to get closure. The pandemic in a way serves as a massive moment in different stories and how it impacts those stories ends up being deeply moving.

Again we return to this idea: does the end of the world result in the end of your world? It doesn't. You remain. Your past. Your memories, your pain. Your struggles and ambitions. You continue forward as life moves with you. It is profound to realise that each of us have these stories. Our own little worlds unfolding around us, sitting within a society and much greater world. Only to notice these things at the worst of times; and in the case of Station Eleven, this epiphany only came with the collapse of all worlds.

Cinematography and score

A great strength of the show are the cinematography and the score. The production quality here is incredible! I loved the directing and the way the show displayed each of the time periods. Often within a specific setting per episode that utilised a single space very well. The characters are often stuck in one place, but their lives rapidly moving. The way they connect with others being what keeps them going. The dialogue differs based on the characters, but works wonderfully in differentiating them from each other. It made each character truly feel unique, like an actual individual. And the directing found different ways of working around their personalities. As well as utilising the space around them to amplify this.

It is rare that I come across a show that has music that I find so easy to connect to that I end up listening to it after watching the show. The score here is often within lyrics, orchestral, and incredibly emotional. It works wonderfully alongside the cinematography and colour palette which shows a darker world. It's powerful in that it makes much of the scenes seem dreamlike. Ambient and slow in how they display the bittersweet recollection of memories. Times good and bad but long gone. Almost nostalgic even if such events were bad. It shows the humanity and the ways in which we connect to memory and really feel. Much of these moments relating to loss and the idea of hope. The music being so good at amplifying these emotions together without pulling you from them at any moment.

The cinematography utilises some really beautiful camera movements and lighting too. I assume the show was shot on vintage lenses for having a sight amount of noise in the imagery while looking so soft on the objects and tones. Even ignoring all else, it's a very visually appealing show. Ultimately it all comes together in near perfection, being one of the greatest shows I have seen in a long time. Beautifully crafted in every way, with a cast that suits each role perfectly. Performances never disappointing, and some absolutely carrying the show forward. Their scenes pulling you in and having you really routing for a good ending for them. Never quite sure if one is to come or not. But that's life, right? Nothing is guaranteed. We are all along for the ride. Trying to figure it all out step-by-step. Trying to avoid regrets, but only noticing them once it's too late. Clinging to the idea of hope, that things get better. Pushing forward from one period of time to the next, looking for those better times.

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›First Impressions on 'Station Eleven': An incredibly strong introduction@namiks1245d

The new television series based on the video game The Last of Us has recently been released and been viewed and discussed by plenty over the past week, but today I came across a statement online regarding a different show; this statement referring to a show essentially being The Last of Us but without the video game weaknesses. While I haven't seen The Last of Us, I did play the first game. I feel I knew precisely what the statement meant, and my curiosity got the best of me as I went around searching for a way to check out this show, the show of which being named Station Eleven. A HBO original series that takes place within a world plagued by a type of flu pandemic, wiping out much of civilisation.

It came to no surprise that the recent years of covid led to Hollywood's inspiration to revisit the idea of pandemic oriented series and films. Pulling from the chaos and fear that came from our total lack of understanding of what was going on and what it all meant for us in the earliest days of it spreading. That depth in fear and uncertainty can offer a wide range of opportunities in regards for storytelling, whether it expands into something greater beyond a mere pandemic or into something more apocalyptic. In essence such ideas can explore themes of physiological trauma and general human condition when presented with something as dangerous as a global pandemic. The panic that sets in during the early phase, the lack of attention regarding how serious it may be, and even the basic ways society can collapse due to its incredibly fragile nature; to which we saw each of these just three years ago.

I like these types of shows and films over something more gruesome. I prefer seeing more intelligent ideas regarding society's collapse and human nature when it comes to finding a way to survive, over something like general horror and action. Thus far I can't say how much the show will continue to be this way, but having seen two episodes, I'm definitely intrigued.

Station Eleven

The first episode had me hooked almost immediately. The first thing I noticed from Station Eleven was an incredibly beautiful directing and cinematography. Shot with a New York City setting that displayed a snowy cold winter, a typical season for a flu to spread. Rather than following the general structure other television series and films have, Station Eleven has a very slow approach to displaying the sudden rise of a pandemic within the city. We get our hints at people being sick, that there is an illness spreading around that's causing some harm in some locations. News reports, sick people in public, but nothing too overwhelming. In fact, our main character is merely one of the first regular citizens to be warned of what's really happening from his partner that happens to work in the hospital.

What makes things interesting here is how he has a sudden panic attack at the realisation that things are much worse and about to get even more so. Warned to prepare and get to a safe location. The panic here is met with a great build-up of anxiety as we follow someone very aware of a greater threat as everyone else remains oblivious. It works well with the idea of anxiety itself and how an individual may seem on edge despite normal surroundings. To add to this is that beautiful cinematography. Very beautiful dark tones from the night of New York City, coated in snow. The directing takes advantage of basic photography principles to amplify the feeling that the surroundings are more dangerous than one would think. Our characters are isolated from groups. We get perspectives from afar or through windows. Constant attempts to ensure that we ourselves feel both connected to these characters but from a safe distance. It was a really immersive set of sequences that really had me engaged with the story and genuinely curious. I wanted to be sure I didn't miss anything, and its directing and cinematography ensure that the feeling you get from watching is that anxiety, to observe the surroundings and make sure there's distance from others. Knowing the secret of what's to come that so few others know of, but also keeping it a secret as to ensure you get what you need and to safety fast. This was an incredible first episode! I really, really enjoyed it.

Though having seen the second episode, it did engage in some time skipping. I'm not really a fan of such styles of storytelling where the future seems different to the sequences we saw prior. Where we hop from past to present to add to character development. The second episode felt a lot slower in a worse manner due to this, removing the emotions and curiosity the first episode established. That isn't to say that the second episode was bad, but just vastly different and starting a new story to pursue. I am still very much curious as to where things are headed, but I did feel a little disappointed in some of the changes implemented. Though I don't want to explore them too much in this post as to avoid spoilers! However, skilling between time periods meant a short time to introduce new characters not present in the first episode. Characters we don't really care for or have a reason to just yet. The result was that this present period in the story didn't feel as threatening anymore. As if the first episode's fears and anxieties were not justified for the present seems more peaceful and structured, still displaying community and some form of civilisation. I have no doubts that this will change however, that somewhere something will go wrong again. I do hope that is the case, at least. Due to that first episode just really pulling me in, and second episode failing to go beyond.

I would like to think that the time skipping scenes will end and focus on the present for the most part. But it feels like such moments will remain and provide some additional backstory as to what happened between the times of the past we witnessed and the present events. This is fine in moderation, but definitely won't suffice in again immersing us with that first episode magic we saw. I'll be checking out episode three when I can, and while I suspect the directing and cinematography will remain strong, I can only hope the story does too. Thus far I can definitely recommend the show, especially if you have been watching The Last of Us, since there are definitely some similarities. Hopefully these two shows can result in some more interest in these survival type shows that build atmosphere over action and horror. The Walking Dead failed and ultimately killed the genre, and now that's over it's only fair that someone else picks up the pieces to revive it.

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La risposta è si ma è un si abbastanza sub judice. Station Eleven è una serie che sono sicuro al 100% non potrà piacere a tutti. Il motivo è semplice. Guarderete il primo episodio e sarete subito tentati da guardare il secondo, con il secondo avrete la stessa voglia di passare al successivo, e cosi via, ma alla fine di ogni episodio sentirete una certa ed esponenziale urgenza di capire dove essa stia andando a parare. Terminata la stagione potreste scoprire che, in fondo, lo show non è andato a parare da nessuna parte, almeno non nel senso più classico del termine. Non vi verrà spiegato quale fosse il virus che ha contagiato la stragrande maggioranza della popolazione, uccidendola. Nessuno vi dirà come quel virus abbia corso cosi velocemente e cosa lo rendeva cosi efficace. Non ci sarà un vero "prima" della pandemia, scorgerete un fumosissimo dopo, grazie ai costanti flash-forward di circa 20 anni dallo scoppio dell'evento apocalittico che tutto cambiò. Non avrete, insomma, delle vere risposte. Questo è il punto di forza ed il punto debole della serie, a seconda della prospettiva con cui la guarderete. Non avrete a che fare con The Walking Dead (per fortuna) o con Resident Evil (che Dio ce ne scampi) ma stringerete la mano a qualcosa di più simile a Tales From The Loop o alla nostrana Anna .

Station Eleven, come ogni sci-fi degno di questo nome, tende a parlare di noi esseri umani, di come reagiamo di fronte all'inatteso e all'ignoto, di come ricostruiamo la nostra umanità in situazioni fuori dall'ordinario e spaventosamente inaffrontabili come potrebbe essere una pandemia devastante come quella raccontata nel libro prima, e nella serie poi. E' la storia di un uomo (Jeevan) che, nonostante il panico avvolto sopra ogni cellula del suo corpo, decide di dare rifugio ad una bambina (Kirsten) incontrata pochi minuti prima e di offrirle un tetto sulla testa in un momento dove tutto è sospeso e tutto sta andando a rotoli. Sotto quel tetto egli si prenderà cura di lei, coadiuvato dal di lui fratello (Frank), uomo malaticcio e claudicante che accoglierà 2 nuove persone nel suo appartamento instaurando, ben presto, un rapporto speciale con quella che, nella serie, diverrà una ragazza speciale nel mondo che verrà. Sarà un mondo poetico e distrutto, un mondo che farà di tutto per non dimenticarsi della bellezza, per non lasciare indietro l'arte, poggiandosi su fondamenta soffici come quelle che la parte più pura e soave del nostro animo potrebbe costruire.

Sviluppo Personaggi: 8 Complessità: 8 Originalità: 9 Autorialità: 9 Cast: 7,5 Intensità: 6++ Trama: 5,5 Coerenza: 6-- Profondità: 9 Impatto sulla serialità contemporanea: 3 Componente Drama: 7 Componente Comedy: 1 Contenuti Violenti: 3 Contenuti Sessuali: 0 Comparto tecnico: 6,5 Regia: 7 Intrattenimento: 4 Coinvolgimento emotivo: 7 Opening: 2 Soundtrack: 4 Produzione: HBO Max Anno di uscita: 2021 Stagione di riferimento: 1

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As usual, today I am bringing you inside a new Preview of an article that in a few days or weeks you will see In the Mind of a SerialFiller, my blog entirely focused on the world of TV series and of which, for the past few months, I have decided to constantly give you, in advance of what I will publish, most of the posts you will see at www.serialfiller.org. Bored with overly action-packed post-apocalyptic series and movies?

Are you more passionate about more intimate science fiction?

Do you remember Halt And Catch Fire?

Queued for 2021, a sci-fi TV series starring MacKenzie Davis (Halt And Catch Fire) and Himesh Patel (Yesterday) has arrived on HBOMax. Based on the 2014 novel of the same name, Station Eleven catapults us into a post-apocalyptic world where humankind has been (almost) wiped out by a pandemic (remind you of something contemporary and recent and moooolly scary?). The main protagonists are a man named Jeevan and a little girl named Kirsten but above all a book that will end up accompanying us throughout all 10 episodes and whose title, as it happens, is the same as the series and the book from which it is based. In Station Eleven, the action scenes are literally nil, there is no frenzy in the storytelling, no room for horror, no monsters or zombies around Via Roma, and everything is confined to the tale of a handful of ordinary people intent on looking around, and over their shoulders, in a whole new world completely emptied of the presence of human beings. The title with which I wanted to inaugurate this post makes you part of my enthusiastic discouragement, my embarrassment in talking about a series that is so strange, unformed and nebulous as to make any kind of categorization, explanation and commentary difficult. This, in the parts of In the Mind of a SerialFiller, is, usually, a gigantic merit. Will the same principle apply this time around?

The answer is yes but it is a fairly sub judice yes. Station Eleven is a series that I am 100% sure will not appeal to everyone. The reason is simple. You will watch the first episode and be immediately tempted to watch the second, with the second you will have the same urge to move on to the next, and so on, but at the end of each episode you will feel a certain and exponential urge to understand where it is going. By the end of the season you may find that, after all, the show has gone nowhere, at least not in the most classic sense of the word. You will not be told what the virus was that infected the vast majority of the population and killed them. No one will tell you how that virus ran so fast and what made it so effective. There will be no real "before" of the pandemic; you will glimpse a smoky after, thanks to constant flash-forwards of some 20 years from the outbreak of the apocalyptic event that changed everything. You will not, in short, have real answers. This is the strength and weakness of the series, depending on the perspective with which you look at it. You will not be dealing with The Walking Dead (thankfully) or Resident Evil (God forbid) but you will be shaking hands with something more like Tales From The Loop or our own Anna . Looking for something like that? Then Station Eleven will be for you. Looking for a post-apocalyptic thriller all about blood, escapes, and strange creatures? Look away; you won't be welcome here.

Station Eleven, like any sci-fi worthy of the name, tends to be about us human beings, how we react in the face of the unexpected and the unknown, how we rebuild our humanity in situations as out of the ordinary and as frighteningly undefeatable as a devastating pandemic like the one recounted in the book first, and in the series later, might be. It is the story of a man (Jeevan) who, despite the panic wrapped over every cell in his body, decides to shelter a little girl (Kirsten) he met minutes earlier and offer her a roof over her head at a time when everything is hanging in the balance and everything is falling apart. Under that roof he will take care of her, assisted by his brother (Frank), a sickly, limping man who will welcome 2 new people into his apartment, soon establishing a special relationship with the one who, in the series, will become a special girl in the world to come. It will be a poetic and broken world, a world that will do everything in its power not to forget beauty, not to leave behind art, resting on foundations as soft as those that the purest and most suave part of our soul could build. We will need to survive, to feed ourselves, to watch our backs against our neighbors, to hope that that will be the last time such a cruel event can befall us, yet we must never forget to live, to act, to learn, to dance, to sing, to paint a world in which Man is still central, for better or worse. This is, perhaps, the most powerful message Station Eleven delivers. It does so quietly, almost surreptitiously, letting us participate in a slow, participatory but never over-the-top reconstruction. And that is perhaps what scares us the most, knowing that, even under impossible conditions, we will be the architects of our own destiny.

Character Development: 8 Complexity: 8 Originality: 9 Authorship: 9 Cast: 7.5 Intensity: 6++ Plot: 5.5 Consistency: 6-- Depth: 9 Impact on contemporary seriality: 3 Drama component: 7 Comedy Component: 1 Violent Content: 3 Sexual Content: 0 Technical Comparison: 6.5 Direction: 7 Entertainment: 4 Emotional Engagement: 7 Opening: 2 Soundtrack: 4 Production: HBO Max Year of release: 2021 Reference season: 1

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›Station Eleven worth it? | Spoiler - free review [ENG/SPA]@danielcarrerag1622d
Greetings cinephile friends, today I bring you one of the most recent series released on HBO Max, in fact, it is one of their originals, which caused a lot of hype among the usual audience of this streaming platform. I had my doubts about this series, because its genre seemed very worn out to me, but I've had a few surprises.

Saludos amigos cinéfilos, hoy les traigo una serie de las más recientes estrenadas en HBO Max, de hecho, es una de sus originales, que causó mucho hype entre la audiencia habitual de esta plataforma de streaming. Tenía mis dudas en cuanto a esta serie, porque su género me parecía muy desgastado, pero me he llevado unas cuantas sorpresas.

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Don't you find that among so many series and movies that you put on your list of favorites to watch later, you don't know what to choose? Maybe a lot of what we put on our lists is because of first impressions, mainly the one we create thanks to the trailers, but if there is something I have learned over time is not to trust them. With Station Eleven the opposite happened to me, its trailer caused me a lot of hype, but I recommend you not to get carried away.

Station Eleven has just finished its first season with 10 chapters full of intrigue, and loaded with a lot of information that is being delivered in small doses in short scenes or in whole chapters, covering a period of twenty years, being the kind of series where you must weave a complicated plot that is delivered in more than one timeline.

¿No les pasa que entre tantas series y películas que colocan en sus listas de favoritos para ver luego, no saben que escoger? Quizás mucho de lo que colocamos en nuestras listas, es por causa de las primeras impresiones, principalmente la que nos creamos gracias a los trailers, pero si algo ya he aprendido con el tiempo es a no confiar en ellos. Con Station Eleven me pasó lo contrario, su trailer me provocó mucho hype, pero les recomiendo no dejarse llevar. Station Eleven acaba de finalizar su primera temporada con 10 capítulos llenos de mucha intriga, y cargados de mucha información que va siendo entregada en pequeñas dosis en cortas escenas o en capítulos enteros, abarcando un periodo de veinte años, siendo el tipo de series dónde debes tejer una complicada trama que se entrega en más de una línea temporal.

What it is about
The series is based on the best-selling book of the same name, whose author is Emily St. John Mandel. The series begins with the moments leading up to an apocalypse, where the existence of humanity is threatened by a pandemic caused by a highly deadly virus. Time goes by and we are shown through the lives of the survivors, who do everything to get by, not only to eat or cover their needs, but also to entertain themselves.

La serie inicia con los momentos predios a un apocalipsis, donde la existencia de la humanidad se ve amenazada producto de una pandemia causada por un virus altamente mortal. El tiempo transcurre y se nos muestra a través de la vida de los sobrevivientes, que hacen todo para salir adelante, no solo para comer o cubrir necesidades, también lo hacen con el entretenimiento.

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The series is loaded with references to theater and literary works, and everything revolves around a book that is written within the plot of the series that is also titled Station Eleven, it is impressive to see how it combines survival in a post apocalyptic world, with interpretations of literary works such as Hamlet and efforts to modernize the old that for some is overrated.

La serie está cargada de referencias al teatro y obras literarias, y todo gira en torno a un libro que es escrito dentro de la trama de la serie que tambien se titula Station Eleven, es impresionante ver cómo se combina la supervivencia en un mundo post apocalíptico, con interpretaciones de obras literarias como Hamlet y los esfuerzos por modernizar lo antiguo que para algunos esta sobre valorado.

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But not everything is literature and plays, we also see suspense, violence and conflicts of a society in its final days, how things turn out after near extinction. For fans of multiple plots, this series is for you, although we have a protagonist where everything converges in her, multiple stories are told, each with its own complexity and surprises.

Pero no todo es literatura y obras, también vemos suspenso, violencia y conflictos de una sociedad en sus días finales, como resultan las cosas luego de la casi extinción. Para los fanáticos de tramas múltiples, está serie es para ustedes, aunque tenemos una protagonista dónde todo converge en ella, se cuentan múltiples historias, cada una con su propia complejidad y sorpresas.

The Plot
A young girl named Kristen starring Mackenzie Davis, participates as an actress in the play King Lear in the city of Chicago, in the middle of the play there is a tragedy, Arthur Leander, an acclaimed film and theater actor starring Gael García Bernal dies in the middle of the presentation of a heart attack, despite attempts to help a spectator from the audience named Jeevan played by Himesh Patel.

Una joven niña llamada Kristen protagonizada por Mackenzie Davis, participa como actriz en la obra teatral del Rey Lear en la ciudad de Chicago, en medio de la obra se da una tragedia, Arthur Leander, un consagrado actor de cine y teatro protagonizado por Gael García Bernal fallece en medio de la presentación de un infarto, a pesar de los intentos de ayuda de un espectador del público llamado Jeevan interpretado por Himesh Patel.

_{[Source](https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2021/12/21/station-eleven-shakespeare-artists-pandemic/)}
Because of the shock of death, Kristen is left alone without the care of the person responsible for returning her to her parents, Jeevan the Good Samaritan offers to help her and take her home, but when her parents arrive they are not there, and at that very moment they receive a call from their sister doctor, that the pandemic has exploded with a 99% mortality rate.

Por causa de la conmoción que provoca la muerte, Kristen queda sola sin los cuidados de la persona responsable de devolverla a sus padres, Jeevan el buen samaritano se ofrece para ayudarle y llevarle a casa, pero al llegar sus padres no se encuentran, y en ese mismo instante reciben la llamada de su hermana médico, de que la pandemia a explotado con una tasa de mortalidad del 99%.

_{[Source](https://www.salon.com/2021/12/16/station-eleven-review-hbo-max/)}
Thanks to the timely call they are able to take shelter and isolate themselves with provisions that they manage to buy at the last minute. There are few belongings that Kristen has with her, among them a book called Station Eleven, whose author was Arthur Leander's wife who died playing King Lear, and that she left with him as a gift the last time they saw each other.

Gracias a la oportuna llamada son capaces de refugiarse y aislarse con provisiones que logran comprar en último momento. Son pocas las pertenencias que Kristen tiene consigo, entre ellas un libro que se titula Station Eleven, cuya autora fue la esposa de Arthur Leander que falleció interpretando Rey Lear, y que dejo con el como obsequio la ultima vez que se vieron.

_{[Source](https://www.thewrap.com/station-eleven-timeline-explained/)}
It would seem that the existence of this book is insignificant, but as the series progresses it takes on greater importance and several of the characters revolve around the story it contains, taking us through time, showing us at times an adult Kristen being already an expert survivor, in the company of a group of actors playing Shakespeare among the few settlements of surviving people.

Pareciera que la existencia de este libro es insignificante, pero con el avance de la serie toma mayor importancia y varios de los personajes giran alrededor de la historia que contiene, llevándonos a través del tiempo, mostrándonos por momentos a una Kristen adulta siendo ya una experta sobreviviente, en compañía de un grupo de actores que interpreta a Shakespeare entre los pocos asentamientos de personas sobrevivientes.

_{[Source](https://lovingseries.com/2021/11/03/hbo-max-anuncia-fecha-para-station-eleven/)}

Conclusion
The first chapters can be boring, at times I was about to abandon the series, I told myself it was not my thing, not because they are putting you in context, is because the story gives many jumps between events in different timelines also giving the feeling of being very slow development of the plot, added to the fact that no performance of its characters impact as to stay hooked.

Los primeros capítulos pueden resultar aburridos, por momentos estuve a punto de abandonar la serie, me dije que no era lo mío, no porque te estén colocando en contexto, es porque la historia da muchos saltos entre acontecimiento en distintas líneas de tiempo dando también la sensación de ser muy lento el desarrollo de la trama, sumado a que ninguna actuación de sus personajes impacta como para quedarse enganchado.

_{[Source](https://www.vulture.com/article/station-eleven-miniseries-adaptation-pandemic-storytelling.html)}
From chapter 4 onwards, things change and there is some action and intrigue with some suspense that at times puts you on the edge of your seat, and then relaxes you again with the flashbacks to the past. It is definitely a series that you have to watch with a broad mind, not expecting outstanding performances from mega-recognized actors. It is a series that can generate a bad first impression, since it is also about a pandemic, a subject we are already exhausted of, but it can also provide ideas and feelings of hope to reach the end of the reality we live in.

A partir del capitulo 4 la cosa cambia y llega algo de acción e intriga con algo de suspenso que por momentos te colocan al borde de la silla, para luego volver a relajarte con los retrocesos al pasado. Definitivamente es una serie que se tiene que ver con mente amplia, no esperando actuaciones destacadas de actores mega reconocidos. Es una serie que puede generar una primera mala impresión, al tratarse también de una pandemia, tema del que ya estamos agotados, pero que también puede brindar ideas y sensaciones de esperanza para alcanzar el final de la realidad que vivimos.

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