Station Eleven

Protagonist Kirsten is a nuanced female character. Characters of color have key roles, like Jeevan (Gujarati British actor Himesh Patel) and The Prophet (Costa Rican American Daniel Zovatto), who enjoy rich characterizations. Race sometimes comes up ("Little White girl," Frank greets Kirsten upon meeting her for the first time) but is not a major theme. Same-sex romances are normalized among main and supporting characters. Disability stereotypes come up when a character pretends to be disabled but turns out to be a villain, or when a disabled character is overly self-sacrificing. The only positive portrayal of disability comes through the very minor role of August (Prince Amponsah, who survived a fire accident).

A pandemic kills off most of the world's population; expect to see scary scenes such as hospitals full of sick people, groups of people coughing and becoming ill, dead bodies in pools of blood, decayed bodies. One central character stabs another abruptly. Deaths take place on-screen, sometimes suddenly. Mines explode. A man is mauled by an animal; blood is visible after the attack but not during. Brief birthing scene shows a baby's head coming out of a vagina. A woman dies in childbirth; not graphic, although she's shown gray and still as a sheet is drawn over her. Many images show weeds growing in formerly crowded areas, and cities in visible decay. Pervasive sense of unease and peril.

Two characters carry on a romance; we see them flirting, kissing, dating, kissing in bed passionately.

Language and cursing includes "f--king," "a--hole."

Visual references to alcohol, such as when Kirsten and Jeevan buy groceries, and several liquor bottles are included. A key character is revealed to use heroin (related accessories are shown) but is never seen high. Another character who was 9 years sober has whiskey during a fraught moment; the scene skips forward to him shirtless and rubbing lines of cocaine on his gums, a stranger's naked arm hanging off a bed in the foreground. Jeevan occasionally smokes.