Station Eleven
Reception

Station Eleven (2021)

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External reception

7.5
5 platform(s) · 7 ratings 45,961 votes
7.1/10 1,505 votes Synced 2026-08-06
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Audience 7.5/10 123 votes Synced 2026-07-19
Critics 8.1/10 Synced 2026-07-19
Audience 7.5/10 Synced 2026-07-18
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7.0/10 447 votes Synced 2026-09-17

External reviews

Melanie McFarland · Salon 100.00/100.00

Wisely Somerville and his team avail themselves of the story's dreamlike feel to merge past and present with complete clarity. Through masterful directing and editing, each episode conveys the way that history lives and breathes within memory, coexisting with the present, whether within a performance or a fugue state.

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Brian Tallerico · RogerEbert.com 100.00/100.00

It’s a show that’s resonant in a different way now than it would have been pre-pandemic, but I think it would have been incredibly powerful whenever it came out because its themes are timeless. ... It’s the first show since the end of “The Leftovers” that reminds me of that masterpiece.

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Ben Travers · IndieWire 91.00/100.00

“Station Eleven” probably sounds like the last thing you want to watch right now. And if it’s too much, too soon, that’s fair. But as we sit on the precipice of the pandemic’s third year, the way this particular story reframes how to look at the end of the world may also prove essential.

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Andrew Crump · The Playlist 100.00/100.00

It is discomfort viewing. It’s essential viewing, too. ... Art teaches us about who we are and who we used to be for the sake of reconciling the two. That’s “Station Eleven’s” power.

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Leila Jordan · Paste Magazine 97.00/100.00

It is a masterpiece. ... The most impressive aspect of Station Eleven is how it works as an adaptation. It is the rare work of audio-visual media that not only skillfully translates the source material, but at times surpasses it.

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Emily VanDerWerff · Vox.com 90.00/100.00

Station Eleven takes Mandel’s book and amps up its sense of a cozy post-apocalypse, where humanity comes together, rather than drifting apart. I entered the series deeply skeptical, and I left it feeling at least semi-hopeful for what humanity might yet become, even after the end. ... The alternation between storytelling modes also gives the show a pleasant rhythm once you fall under its spell.

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Meghan O'Keefe · Decider 100.00/100.00

Station Eleven is brilliant television. It’s one of the most profound meditations on love, loss, grief, and community I’ve ever seen.

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James Poniewozik · The New York Times 100.00/100.00

At times dark and heartbreaking, it’s also luminous, wondrous, even funny — the most uplifting show about life after the end of the world that you are likely to see.

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Jen Chaney · New York Magazine (Vulture) 100.00/100.00

Station Eleven is a beautifully wrought piece of storytelling. ... Our world isn’t ending even though COVID is still a presence in it. But when you watch Station Eleven and become immersed in it, it really does become the whole wide world. What a gift.

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Carly Lane · Consequence 100.00/100.00

Station Eleven is the quintessential case of an adaptation that doesn't just draw from the best parts of the original novel but actually finds a way to improve on the source material. Its singular flaw, really, is the timing of its release, but the final product is so provoking, poignant, and ultimately optimistic that it becomes an indelible triumph of television, a story that succeeds separately from the book, and one of the best small-screen contributions to 2021.

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