Sheel’s Reviews > Station Eleven > Status Update

Also this part was key
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all? A thousand little quirky details, all of which are metaphors for something else, none of which means fucking anything.

Also apparently there’s a part in the tv show where a character says “so pretentious” in responses to something so at least it’s self aware?

“With workshop fiction, I imagine a story about young adults lounging around in impossibly expensive NYC apartments that their parents paid for while they complain about the ennui of existence. Absolutely nothing of consequence happens except an awkward sex scene that leaves no one happy. Anyways, it's all good because the novel has Themes (TM) and Meaning (TM).”

This but replace NYC apartment with post apocalypse.

“The novel is a series of loosely connected character studies, bound together by certain shared objects and relationships which carry meaning in the "trust me, it's really deep, don't think about it too hard," kind of way.”

“Perhaps I'm not a deep person, but I really don't feel like life is that deep where every single moment is weighed down with all of this meaning and turmoil.”