The Stand: where to start reading
Adapts The Stand by Stephen King. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
at The Stand.
The nine-episode miniseries adapts the whole novel, though it re-orders events with flashbacks and moves the setting to the present day. The finale adds a fresh ending co-written by Stephen King, so the last stretch differs from the book. Reading the novel start to finish still fills in everything the show compresses.
Miniseries draws on this book. Read the full story:
The Stand
What the show changed here
- MovedThe show tells events out of order, opening in Boulder and filling in the outbreak through flashbacks; the book runs chronologically.
- ChangedThe setting is updated to the present day rather than the novel's late-1970s/1990 timeframe.
- ChangedSome main characters have their gender or ethnicity changed from the book.
- InventedThe finale adds a new coda co-written by Stephen King and his son Owen, not in the original novel.
A single nine-episode 2020 miniseries adapting Stephen King's stand-alone novel. It tells the story out of order with heavy flashbacks and flash-forwards, and its final episode adds a new ending co-written by King with his son Owen. An earlier 1994 miniseries adapted the same novel more linearly.
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