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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
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• 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?