Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the series premiere of “The Stand,” streaming now on CBS All Access.In adapting Stephen King’s 1300-plus page novel “The Stand” for a nine-episode limited series on CBS All Access, showrunner Benjamin Cavell wanted to take a non-linear approach, in part because he didn’t want to spend multiple episodes dealing with the pandemic in the story before getting to the meat of specific characters’ journeys to learn how the Dark Man, a.k.a.
Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgård), was stirring up chaos out in the west, and to try to put an end to his reign.But this approach also meant that the majority of central characters in “The Stand” did not get.
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