STATION ELEVEN
All their world’s a stage
Cheer up folks, it might never happen! Oh. Hang on…
UK Starzplay, Sundays
US HBO Max, streaming now
▶ Showrunner Patrick Somerville
▶ Cast Mackenzie Davis, Himesh Patel, Matilda Lawler, David Wilmot, Daniel Zavatto, Gael Garcia Bernal
EPISODES 1.01-1.10 “So pretentious!” snaps someone towards the end of this miniseries. He’s referring to the titular graphic novel about a spaceman – we see the characters reading the comic endlessly, treating it like the Bible – but he could just as easily be talking about Station Eleven, the series we’re watching. Because this show sometimes disappears so far up its own bum it can see its tonsils.