“I remember damage.” That haunting quote, from the novel “Station Eleven,” by Emily St. John Mandel, becomes an ongoing theme in the TV series of the same name, adapted by P…
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“I think something special about the show is that it’s made by a bunch of people who never would have gone after making a show about a pandemic, if we knew one was coming,” Somerville says. “We shot episodes 1 and 3 before we had really heard of COVID. We were trying to tell a story about healing. And then we happened to fall into a gigantic pandemic. And so, I think there’s a lot of gigantic feelings that our audience had been sitting on, and were buried and didn’t have a way to express them.
“Station Eleven” returned to filming during the height of COVID-19 protocols that kept everyone on crew masked up and at a distance. Davis came up with the idea of “Face Reveal Fridays” on set in order to get to briefly see her co-workers. “It drove me crazy that we never saw people’s faces,” she says. “At the morning meeting on Fridays, we would do ‘Face Reveal Fridays,’ where we chose somebody from the crew to stand up and take off their mask and turn around, and everybody would cheer.
Somerville is adapting St. John Mandel’s “The Glass Hotel,” which is a bit of an anthology from the world of “Station Eleven”: The character of Miranda is in that book as well. “We thought what would happen if we sort of expanded her role,” he says. “And what’s interesting there is that it takes place in the time between when she burns down Arthur’s pool house and shows back up again in 2020.
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