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How The Stand Updates Randall Flagg’s New Vegas

This article contains spoilers for episode 5 of The Stand. In “Fear and Loathing in New Vegas,” the fifth entry in CBS All Access’ nine-part adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand, we get to spend a significant amount of time in Las Vegas, where the demonic Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgard) has established his sinister kingdom. There are other important plot developments in the course of the episode, such as the aftermath of Teddy Weizak’s (Eion Bailey) murder at the hands of Harold (Owen Teague) and Nadine (Amber Heard) — which they made to look like a suicide — as they…
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The Stand Trailer Teases Battle Between Randall Flagg and Mother Abagail

The first teaser for CBS’s new adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand has arrived. The 30-second teaser is a very small slice of footage but there are two pretty big reveals in it: our first looks at Whoopi Goldberg’s post-apocalyptic prophet Mother Abagail and Alexander Skarsgard’s Randall Flag, the Walking Dude himself. Check out the teaser below: The Stand, which is considered by many Constant Readers to be King’s absolute masterpiece, is the story of two groups of survivors living in a post-apocalyptic United States after a superflu known as Captain Trips has completely decimated 99 percent of the world’s…
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