Station Eleven

i brought my own baggage and wanted it to be 'the road', but instead i got something that stubbornly, gloriously insisted on being about people, love, art, and connection--the only things that can truly save us. a masterpiece.

There's something beautiful about taking an overused bleak setting but making art the main focus of the story instead of the usual tropes. It's a sad but beautiful story, well written and suspenseful until the very end. The first and last episodes can not leave anyone indifferent. They know how to pull heartstrings, it's all so… human, character driven, emotional, this show is an obvious labor of love and passion. All my expectations were subverted. I'm glad I stumbled upon it.

Not what I was expecting at all, not mired in the tropes of post apocalyptic fiction. Great characters, even the "villains" get character development

Although it's an apocalyptic setting which has its lows, they're balanced with strong highs. There is real growth and positive character development. It doesn't have a modern cliched downer ending. It tears down but then builds back up.

Intrigued at first, completely fell in it after two episodes, very original TV Show !

It is rare that a 10 episode TV series feels perfectly formed and complete, and yet feels like it breathes and lives beyond its short frame. Absolutely loved it!

Based on an amazing book, this manages to be an amazing show, the joyful post-apocalypse I needed to see, because it is about art, kindness, caring for one another, it is about catharsis and also is cathartic. The writing is so well structured, it looks gorgeous, the casting is perfect. It is a show that says survival is not enough, we must live.

Station Eleven was fantastic. I'm glad that they decided to make this a miniseries. I think it takes some balls in Hollywood to propose and make something like this happen. They could have easily have milked this thing for all it's worth and it would have been a piece of shit. The acting is fantastic in this show. Lori Petty, Jesus Christ, what has she been doing for the last twenty years because she was fucking amazing in this role. The final episode was the perfect bow on this gorgeous present

Strange meandering journeys weave together a magical tale here. It is uneven at times, extremely disconnected and confusing, but ultimately meaningful. The ending could have been quite a bit better.

The central thesis is simply fantastic. Human existence requires more than just mere survival. The interwoven stories and timelines sometimes make things very slow, but it's very much worth it. My only real gripe is that the acting was always theatrical. Likely a purposeful decision, and it's obvious why this story may feel right for it, but it always prevented me from really getting lost in the world.