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APOCALYPSE… WHEN?
Ten-part sci-fi series Station Eleven is based on Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 book, which begins as a swineflu pandemic wipes out much of the world’s population. Among the survivors are trainee paramedic Jeevan (Yesterday’s Himesh Patel) and Kirsten (Matilda Lawler), a young child actor whom he befriends. “It’s this postapocalyptic story that doesn’t bear the marks of any other post-apocalyptic story,” says Mackenzie Davis, who plays Kirsten when the story jumps 20 years in the future. “It’s not this hardscrabble duo fending off danger at every turn. Or an all-out future war that never seems to get resolved.”