Some behind the scenes pics of the big fungus zombie from The Last of Us

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Emily Mandel posted comments about the Station Eleven series

She posted many comments on the differences between the book and tv show.

If you've watched the Station Eleven TV series, you'll notice this as the first major point of divergence between the show and the book. In the book, this is the last time Kirsten and Jeevan ever see one another; they're together for only a few minutes in the theatre and then part ways forever. In the series, they see one another again a few minutes later, outside the theatre, and remain together for the next year of their lives. For the record, I wish I'd thought of this when I was writing the book! I think it's really good plotting.

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Something I love about the Station Eleven TV adaptation is that Jeevan isn't alone at the end of the world. There's a line late in the show, I believe in episode 10, when Jeevan says something like "having one other person, just one other person, can make all the difference," or words to that effect. I've been thinking about that a lot ever since I watched the show.

"Kimi" on HBO is a good thriller

Appropriate for it to be released the same week as this revelation about how San Francisco is using DNA submitted by rape victims.

Slight spoiler below:

"It’s not a flashback! It’s two competing, simultaneous nows. Which is more to me what it feels like to remember traumatic moments. They feel like now."

From a long interview with Station Eleven showrunner Patrick Somerville about the series (it sounds like what I loved about the show wasn't part of the book):

It’s not a flashback! It’s two competing, simultaneous nows. Which is more to me what it feels like to remember traumatic moments. They feel like now. They exist simultaneously in your life, and you live them over and over again in a circle. That’s why I think it’s fair in Station Eleven.

Also, Lori Petty (who is in Station Eleven) has a lot of funny comments in this interview about her career:

So there's this scene (in Point Break) where we wake up on the beach after we supposedly made love. Keanu goes, "Oh, I'm late. Oh shit, I'm so fucking late,” and then he gets up and leans over the top of me and he gives me a kiss, and then he runs off. And then Kathryn [Bigelow]’s like, "Reset." And she looks at me and I look at her. I'm like, "I got it." Because that was too short. She shared a look. So he gets on top of me again, gives me a kiss. He says, "I'm so late. I've got to go." Well, what you can't see off-frame is I put my fingers in his belt loops. Now watch next time. He tries to get up and I pull him down. But you can't tell I pulled him down. He just laughed. 

Do you still surf?

I did not like surfing even when I was surfing. 

Nine behind-the-scenes stories about making HBO's "Station Eleven"

(It's absolutely terrific--and I never made it far in the book.) Vulture:

Our main access road to the cabin set, only one way in and one way out — it’s the road that we brought all the equipment in and brought the cast in, and it was meant to be pristine. In the story, it’s post-pandemic. There are no cars! So Patrick came up with this brilliant idea that even though we’re post-pandemic, there’s one guy with a snowplow. He was like, “Why not! There could be a guy with a snowplow, and he’s clearing the road.” So we got a snowplow guy to clear the road, and that justified what was required for us to be able to shoot those scenes.

Slate also has a long interview with adapted by Patrick Somerville, who adapted the novel.

Meanwhile, in the real world:

Went to get a PCR test in Sanya, Hainan, in preparation for flying back to Beijing. The lady taking the swabs was dressed in a full airtight suit. pic.twitter.com/kTLyeS2Ko3

— Gabriel Corsetti (@GabrielCorsetti) January 16, 2022

The first episode of HBO's "The Flight Attendant" is great, and free

Watching Lovecraft Country and thinking about how, less than 10 years ago, Disney made a space epic starring a Confederate soldier

2012 Disney:




2020 HBO:



The first episode is very good:







Related:

I was on a panel where it was asked how the horror of yesteryear differs from modern horror. I said it used to be about fear of the Other coming in to disrupt the status quo. These days, it’s marginalized people writing about how the status quo IS the horror we exist in everyday.

— 🌵🌈 Nibedita Sen, a smol potato ☕️🖕🏽 (@her_nibsen) August 2, 2020

Wow. I just read this amazing (4yo) analysis by @ChesyaBurkePhD. "When you define horror by the writings of white men, the white men become heroes and everyone else is a villain." https://t.co/dZoYmQPSY0

— N. K. Jemisin (@nkjemisin) August 21, 2020