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This production started filming in Chicago in January 2020 and (according to a September 2021 Steve Greene article in IndieWire) was about one-fifth completed before having to shut down in March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming resumed in February 2021 in Canada, and wrapped that July. So this series about life before, during, and after a catastrophic worldwide pandemic was filmed before and during (and aired during) a catastrophic worldwide pandemic.

Surreal and enigmatic

Station Eleven (now 5 episodes in) is a slow burn, surreal, and enigmatic. It's clearly not going to be for everyone, but any review under 5 stars isn't doing justice to what is going on with this show.

There's a slightly ominous aspect to it that provides a foil for its seeming lack of coherence (which is really only surface deep). It's coherence lies in the themes it follows rather than any fixed and characterised point of view.

This is a very carefully constructed and intelligent piece with a haunting sound track and an at times brilliant interplay between characters left traumatised by their experience of a world coming apart at the seams and their non-volitional survival - in various ways they are all in shock. There are some quite sensational performances from some of the cast, but they also have some great material to work with.

This is intelligent and thought provoking TV, delivered with passion.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10574236/

Station Eleven Ending Explained: The Circle Never Breaks
The Station Eleven finale is one of the best episodes of television in a long time. Here is how Kirsten, Jeevan, and Miranda’s stories end.

By Alec Bojalad

This article contains spoilers for STATION ELEVEN.

“I’ve been adrift in the strangest galaxy for a long time. But I’m safe now. I found it again. My home.” – Dr. Eleven

It’s not an original observation that many, if not most, good stories are about stories themselves. After all, they say “write about what you know” and what does a storyteller know if not the power of story? ...

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/station-eleven-ending-explained/

The song choice, Somerville said, was a deliberate one, as were all of the needle drops in “Station Eleven.” It was the idea of David Eisenberg, his producing partner, and then pointed his computer toward Eisenberg, who said, “I just had it in my head as soon as I read the script,” a year before they even shot the scene.

But that’s the point of “United We Stand,” Somerville said — and of “Station Eleven” itself.

“That’s how we’re going to get through the pandemic, too,” he said. “That’s how they did it. Stay together. Don’t eat each other alive.

“And I know it’s going be hard! But this is how we get through it.”



https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/station-eleven-spoilers-ending-patrick-somerville-jessica-rhoades-1235153094/