The Stand: where to start reading
Adapts The Stand by Stephen King. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
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.
Start reading at The Stand (the complete novel; the book is worth reading even after the show)- 1The Stand1978
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.
Spoiler-safe ratings are coming. You will rate and read reviews only up to your place in the story, never a hint of what is ahead.
