Different members of the company had a different sensitivity on their radar to it. How aware were you at the time that Covid was coming? You filmed your first episodes, which turned out to be the first and third, in January and February of 2020. Somerville spoke with Rolling Stone about the entire season - which means there are full spoilers for all 10 episodes here - including what it was like to have it come out during the rise of the Omicron variant, the nonlinear storytelling, the finale’s crucial reunion, and more. It’s a tremendous show, whose finale is out now. But it’s done it in a way that has proved surprisingly cathartic - and, yes, joyful - to viewers willing to travel through Somerville and director Hiro Murai’s vision of post-virus life as it streamed on HBO Max over the last two months. So the long-in-gestation screen adaptation (which Somerville began working on in 2018, after attempts to make a movie failed) very much touches the third rail of what we’ve all been struggling with over the last two years. But unlike on traditional postapocalyptic dramas The Walking Dead or The Stand, the survivors mostly get along with one another, and the focus is on an acting troupe called the Traveling Symphony - whose star, Kirsten (Mackenzie Davis), is our central character - performing Shakespeare plays for communities in the Midwest. It’s a world mostly without electricity and the other creature comforts of the reality we know. John Mandel’s 2015 novel takes place 20 years after a particularly nasty flu strain has wiped out 99 percent of the world’s population. Somerville’s largely faithful adaptation of Emily St. Long before anyone had heard about Covid-19, Patrick Somerville was pitching Station Eleven as “a postapocalyptic show about joy.”
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