The Stand
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The bad news is that it turns out it did it for the second hour, too.
And there are some solid performances throughout.
Lets just hope the momentum builds a bit more in subsequent chapters.
Pocket Savior presents a plague as a fresh start, a way to reinvent a criminal and an addict.
Jump backLoststyle to how Larry Underwood got here.
It doesnt seem like a pleasant life.
Lloyd Henreid had even more problems in the before times.
He wakes up with someone he barely knows who just happens to be covered in snot.
Theres not so much slow buildup as an instant vision of Hell.
Larry gets to leave with his cocaine.
Larry seems uncertain of his own importance.
(Clearly, immunity plays no favorites in this world.)
Finally, he has a reasonable companion, someone to leave New York City with and start afresh.
They go back to his apartment and have a normal night eating, drinking, and having sex.
And then they remember that death leads to rats and theyre going to have to leave the city.
It drags here, trying to wring tension from Ritas discomfort but lacking in real stakes.
They make it to the bridge and seem to be ready to flee the Big Apple.
Rita wont make it far.
She kills herself, leaving Lloyd alone again.
Meanwhile, Lloyd is stuck behind bars during a pandemic.
Not only does his cellmate die, but hes basically left behind with no food and no resources.
After teasing him with his own hunger, he tells him that Lloyd will be his right-hand man.
Lloyd can get even with the people who left him there.
Some of the music choices here are very smart, some are a little on the nose.
And no sign yet of Glen Bateman, who will be played by Greg Kinnear.
She probably never thought shed get the chance again a quarter-century later.
