Up until this week the show hasn’t taken much time to slow down and really examine its characters, which is exactly what Stephen King’s coda does for Fran.
How it exists in the context of the CBS All Access miniseries is a different conversation – and that’s primarily due to the pacing of everything we’ve seen over the last nine weeks.
In that way it feels distinct compared to the rest of the adaptation, and while that’s a bit odd, it’s not entirely a bad thing given the historical significance of the original author adding to his original work more than 40 years after its original publication.
With a hell of a lot of ground to cover, The Stand has been moving at a whip-crack pace from the very beginning – pushed in a big way by the non-linear structure in the first few episodes that abbreviated the arcs of all the main players.