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A highly-virulent weaponized virus breaks containment and wreaks havoc.

It starts strong then goes downhill into some odd religious stuff. Generally terrible later on. Worth watching if you're into this genre.

• Based on The Stand - (1978 book), by Stephen King

s01e01 @49:45

Episode 1 - The Plague ∞

• -- Oh man, this is fullscreen.

• --

  This is the way the world ends
  This is the way the world ends
  This is the way the world ends
  Not with a bang but a whimper.
  -- T.S.Eliot

• 1:00 -- Uh oh, do borders work?
• 3:00 -- There ought to be two people for something that important.

• 7:15 -- Arnette, Texas - United States - June 17

  • This location is fictional.
• 10:15 -- California
• 10:30 -- Salt Lake City
• 11:00 -- Well the fastest runners in the world are dark men..
• 14:00 -- Anthrax

• 20:30 -- Braintree, Texas

  • This location is fictional.

• 20:45 -- That's the kind of mask that should have been worn earlier, and not the faux-P95 souped-up nurse's mask.

  • See Respirator, NIOSH air filtration rating
• 22:30 -- Queens - New York City - United States - June 19
• 25:15 -- Loan shark
• 26:15 -- One-hit wonder

• 26:30 -- To better understand the music industry, check out:

  • Courtney Love does the math
  • The Problem With Music, by Steve Albini

• 27:30 -- Vermont Disease Control High Security Center - June 19

  • The actual department appears to be fictional.
• 28:30 -- 29:15 -- Swine flu
• 30:00 -- Man this show keeps showing more and more now-famous actors.
• 30:45 -- R.E.M.
• 32:00 -- Oh god she has huge gums.

• 36:15 -- Shoyo - Arkansas - United States - June 20

  • This location appears to be fictional.
• 37:00 -- The Battle Hymn of the Republic
• 38:00 -- That's a cornfield.
• 39:00 -- Now that he's beaten up, I recognize him from As Good as It Gets - (1997 movie).
• 39:15 -- Abigail Freemantle
• 39:30 -- Hemmingford Home(?) Nebraska - United States
• 45:00 -- Guinea pig
• 45:15 -- I don't understand the "don't call me Geraldo" reference.
• 49:00 -- VH1
• 49:30 -- The flu kills lots of people.
• 49:45 -- God damn That's a smile.

• 51:00 --

  • Burrack - Arizona - United States - June 23
    -- This location appears to be fictional.
  • Sharp Dressed Man - (1983 song), by ZZ Top
• 51:15 -- Holy shit, another star.
• 56:00 -- The Second Coming - (1919 poem), by W. B. Yeats
• 56:30 -- Goulash
• 58:30 -- Did he get deputized?
• 1:01:00 -- I'd just toss the key in to the healthy guy and let him let his friends out, and keep a gun trained on them at a distance.
• 1:11:00 -- Ogunquit, Maine - United States - June 26
• 1:11:15 -- "Some Jewish penicillin" hahaha
• 1:12:00 -- Radio. Neat.
• 1:15:00 -- Maricopa County, Arizona - United States - June 27

• 1:22:30 -- Take his gun!

  • .. yes!

• 1:27:00 -- All this time I was wondering why he wouldn't try to find his stuff, for his shoes.

Episode 2 - The Dreams ∞

• 0:35 -- Ogunquit, Maine - United States - June 29
• 1:00 -- I didn't try very hard, but I didn't find any information on this corpse-sheet-thing.
• 4:00 -- Wedgie

• 6:00 -- Back in the day, when popular music could be licensed..

  • Don't Dream It's Over - (1986 song), by Crowded House
    -- J9gKyRmic20
• 7:15 -- I get the visual impact, but milk wouldn't still be running out like that.
• 8:00 -- Central Park - New York City - United States

• 14:00 -- Arizona Maximum Security Holding Facility - June 30

  • This location might be fictional. See List of United States federal prisons

• 15:30 -- Powtanville Hills - Indiana - United States

  • This location appears to be fictional.
• 16:00 -- Holy fuck this is full of so many stars.
• 19:30 -- Prune

• 21:15 --

  • History of the Jews in Egypt - Biblical Egypt
  • Americans in Colorado - United States
• 22:30 -- A song form of What a Friend We Have in Jesus - (1855 poem), by Joseph M. Scriven
• 26:45 -- "Pleased to meet you" is from Sympathy for the Devil - (1968 song), by The Rolling Stones
• 29:30 -- Lincoln Tunnel - New York City - United States - July 1
• 30:30 -- George Washington Bridge
• 31:00 -- Prima donna

• 33:45 -- Lighters can't stay on for very long.

  • Yeah, like that.
• 34:15 -- Lots of car lights would be on, or the batteries would have to be dead.
• 35:00 -- How is she ahead of him?

• 36:45 --

  • New Jersey - United States
  • Attleboro, Massachusetts - United States - July 1
• 38:30 -- Pipersville, Pennsylvania - United States - July 2
• 44:15 -- May, Oklahoma - United States - July 4
• 45:00 -- He healed up really quick.
• 59:00 -- Did they get a bike with a sidecar?
• 59:45 -- Pratt, Kansas - United States - July 8
• 1:01:45 -- Another star.
• 1:06:00 -- Mighty Mouse
• 1:13:00 -- Des Moines, Iowa - United States - July 11

• 1:13:30 -- Eve of Destruction - (1965 song), by P. F. Sloan, popularized by Barry McGuire

  • MdWGp3HQVjU
• 1:14:15 -- Everyone's been introducing themselves and including their last name.
• 1:15:30 -- Utah Badlands - United States - July 11
• 1:23:00 -- Railroad dick is "dick" as in detective.
• 1:24:45 -- Las Vegas - Nevada - United States - July 16
• 1:25:00 -- I guess the corpses all look like that because of the intense daytime heat.

• 1:27:30 -- Boulder, Colorado - United States - July 17

Episode 3 - The Betrayal ∞

• 0:30 -- Kunkle, Ohio - United States - July 17

  • Same-day? (th 17th) Who is that guy? Where's the old woman?
• 4:45 -- Boulder, Colorado - United States
• 5:30 -- Sleeping pills
• 6:45 -- Why? No. Don't chase after her probably-lying ass.
• 15:00 -- Boulder, Colorado - United States - July 25
• 17:15 -- That's the author, Stephen King
• 19:45 -- Uh, no nothing "nearly choked the world to death".

• 24:15 -- Maybe the power plant was shut down for a reason.

  • Also, are they powering up so they can stay there? I suppose they are expecting more people.
• 28:00 -- The national anthem
• 39:15 -- What's with these super short intense relationships? It's been a couple of weeks. Is this one year later or something?

• 43:30 --

  • Los Angeles - United States
  • CIA
  • Scud missile
  • A-bomb
• 45:45 -- August 20
• 46:00 -- Hypnosis
• 47:45 -- I don't understand why they would know to use him as some sort of clairvoyant.
• 51:30 -- August 21

• 1:06:15 -- September 1

  • Wait.. has it been only that short a time?

• 1:26:15 -- How? How is he in love with her? I'm not even going to do the math on how short a time they've had together.

Oh god I'm bored of this show..

Episode 4 - The Stand ∞

• 0:30 -- Annabella, Utah - United States - September 10

  • This location appears to be fictional.

• 1:15 -- Well shit, he's dead.

  • Why would that be done to him?
• 3:15 -- The Targhee Pass, Idaho - United States - September 11
• 6:00 -- Eww, kissing a smoker.

• 6:15 -- Copperfield, Idaho - United States

  • This location appears to be fictional.
• 20:30 -- She has a different hair net now.

• 21:00 -- Indian Springs isn't in either Utah or Idaho.

  • This location appears to be fictional.
  • Though there is a Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada
• 26:45 -- San Rafael Swell - Utah - United States - September 13
• 31:30 -- Surgeon General of the United States

• 38:30 -- Prufrock Nuclear Storage Facility #3 - September 17

  • This location appears to be fictional.
• 41:00 -- Nevada-Utah Border - United States - September 17

• 42:15 -- Ax - Utah - September 18

  • This location appears to be fictional.
• 46:30 -- Coca-Cola
• 51:00 -- It really does bother me that there isn't much debris down at the bottom.
• 51:45 -- Kanosh, Utah - United States - September 21
• 53:45 -- The old man is rather clean-shaven.
• 56:45 -- Rodney King
• 57:15 -- Clark County Jail - Las Vegas - United States

• 1:02:30 -- Pale Horse, Pale Rider

  • See Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
• 1:05:30 -- Shouldn't the big guy kill him, since that's what he was hypnotized to do?
• 1:07:15 -- "Disco is dead" is an old phrase.
• 1:14:45 -- Well that was out of nowhere.

• 1:15:45 -- How does he know about them? The scouts weren't supposed to know about one another, and the big guy left before the four.

  • Well this went downhill..
• 1:16:00 -- Ax - Utah - September 23

• 1:17:00 -- Green River, Utah - United States

  • The date wasn't specified.

• 1:20:30 -- November 2

  • Doesn't it get cold in Utah?
• 1:22:00 -- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - (1900 book), by L. Frank Baum
• 1:22:45 -- Boulder Free Zone - United States - November 15
• 1:23:30 -- How come anyone could be expected? Were they really posted every day and every night?

• 1:30:30 -- So who is the father?