11/19/2023 0 Comments Station 11 episode 3 recapEleven since before meeting Arthur, which happens soon after. When her boss, Leon, asks where she sees herself in 20 years, she replies that she’ll be working for Leon or dead. She gets things from their point of origin to their end point by whatever path they need to take. In 2020, she still has that job, and she’s good at it. “I remember everything,” she says during the interview - it’s among her strongest qualities. In 2005, Miranda takes a job with a logistics firm. So instead of tracking the episode faithfully, I’m reorganizing the events into their true order. The time slides around like we’re watching a memory, sifting through the shards, but at the end, I still didn’t understand why they weren’t together. The chutes and ladders of the timeline confuse more than they clarify they make it harder to understand why these characters who loved each other couldn’t stop themselves from questioning that love. In the past, the jumps and reversals have lent context to the preceding scene, like seeing Kirsten locked out of her house, then seeing the same house overrun with long grass. Miranda and Arthur found each other and left each other when they shouldn’t have.īy now, we know better than to expect time to progress chronologically on Station Eleven. Intriguingly, the episode doesn’t question Arthur’s premise that a life can be the right one or the wrong one. “Hurricane” is the story of how the couple moved from strangers through a season of love to cold resentment and, eventually, the tender moment of reconciliation when Miranda hands Arthur a copy of her book. If he were to comment on his own death, he might even say he lived the wrong life. ![]() When Arthur dies, he’ll be mostly estranged from Miranda. The third episode of Station Eleven is called “Hurricane,” which is a different natural disaster from the pandemic that ends civilization. When I die, you will have wasted my life. ![]() Who doesn’t want to spend their years on this planet living the right life, whatever that means? Shouted in the course of a fight, though, the words sting. As a sentiment, it’s so harmless as to be universal. “I don’t want to live the wrong life and then die,” Arthur yells in the direction of Miranda.
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