Station Eleven (2021)

Twenty years after a flu pandemic, Mackenzie Davis's Kirsten tours the Great Lakes with a travelling troupe performing Shakespeare. Patrick Somerville's ten-part adaptation of Emily St John Mandel's novel asks what is worth keeping once survival is sorted, and answers with plays, comics and friendship rather than marauders. It is hopeful, which is unusual for the genre, though the early episodes about the outbreak itself are hard going.