


In the new coda to the show, Frannie Goldsmith ( Odessa Young), the first woman to give birth after almost all of the population of earth died in a plague, ventures out into the world with Stu Redmond ( James Marsden), Adam to her Eve. But I wanted to do it in a way that was not preachy.”

At some point, people do have to make a stand. “And I wanted to write about Christian mythology. “I wanted to write about bravery,” he told Vanity Fair last spring. The title of the final episode of The Stand was was “The Circle Closes,” which may help explain why Stephen King brought his end-of-the-world saga to a conclusion that was more akin to the Book of Genesis than Revelations.īefore assuming the Biblical references are overwrought, King himself said that religious scripture influenced the story.
