605: Apocalypse Doctoring

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Get out your pocket knife and stick to the Wheel—we’re a traveling band of podcasters who move from town to town to re-enact conversations from before the apocalypse! Or at least that’s who we’d be in our version of the HBO Max miniseries, “Station Eleven.” We discuss the moving, optimistic post-apocalyptic tale that is told in a fractured time sequence and features lots of Shakespeare and a suspiciously powerful self-published graphic novel. And though there’s definitely no “Station Twelve” on the horizon, we can’t help but imagine what other stories are there just waiting to never be told....

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 605, March 22.
0:08.5	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.
0:11.9	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:13.0	This episode is about, actually, funny story.
0:17.0	A while back, we did an episode where we talked about the book, Station 11 by Emily St. John
0:21.6	Mandel, and guess what?
0:23.4	Now we're going to talk about the miniseries based on the novel, Station 11, called...
0:29.7	Wait for it.
0:31.4	Station 11.
0:32.7	Sorry, it wasn't a surprise.
0:34.0	It's called the same thing as the book.
0:35.6	Anyway, I thought it was pretty interesting that we had already read the book for our book club.
0:41.3	And then they made a show out of it.
0:43.1	And also, I thought it was a really interesting show.
0:45.1	So we're going to talk about it.
0:45.8	It was on HBO Max.
0:46.8	And here, it's not just me telling you what the title is.
0:50.7	There's some great people with me here.
0:53.4	Aline Sims joins me. Hello. Hello. I
0:57.7	liked the book and I really, really liked the miniseries. Spoiler. Wow. You're just letting it all,
1:04.7	people, you don't like people to wonder, do you? Like, well, I don't know. What's Aline going to say?
1:10.1	You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah're like, here it is. Annette Weirster, you do not have to answer if you liked it or not, but you can if you
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