The first episode is done in a fractured timeline with flashbacks and forwards, but feels odd. Wasn't sure if they are trying to do it more on a character by character basis, like The Leftovers managed quite successfully.
The first scene of the book is the last scene of the episode, don't quite get the order they've shown some things, when most of the episode is set at the start of the virus anyway.
It feels like they are blazing through the pandemic to get to the good vs evil stuff ... and worse maybe to be a bit soap like in Boulder ... Eastenders with added Christian-like Apocalypse(hopefully not).
But have only seen one episode so might be wrong. If I've read correctly, its been in development for a while and filming finished just as Covid really kicked off.
So don't know if they've deliberately missed a lot of the pandemic stuff because we've had the real thing this year or its just the way it was decided to go long before Covid happened.
Regardless , just felt it would have made more impact walking through the worst version of the global pandemic we could have had from the start , updated to 2020 with conspiracy theorists, lockdown demos, social media disinformation etc. Especially given it was an actual conspiracy theory .. the US government accidently release their own creation and when the point of no return is reached they deliberately release it around the world for plausible deniability.
There's a great chapter in the book that describes the virus jumping from person to person that really makes the hairs stand up on your neck, particularly if you read it in 2020. Suspect that's all gone.
"He left the sweet thang that waited his table a dollar tip that was crawling with death."
Anyways, will still be watching next week.
