RELATED: What 'Hawkeye' gets right about deafness – and what it glosses over Half of the shots of Frank don't even show it. But it seems like the decision to minimize Frank's disability was made for the comfort of an abled audience. Yes, navigating a wheelchair in a small apartment would be difficult - that sounds a lot like real life where spaces are often not accessible. It's unclear why the decision was made to make a major character of 'Station Eleven' less disabled. With shrapnel in his leg in the series, rather than the bullet-severed spinal cord injury in the book, he says simply: 'Someone tried to blow me up.' Instead, he relies half-heartedly on a cane. Frank does not use a wheelchair in the series. It is surprising, then, in the HBO Max adaptation of 'Station Eleven' when Frank answers his apartment door standing upright. One of those who survives is Jeevan Chaudhary (Himesh Patel), an underemployed freelance journalist and aspiring EMT whose brother, Frank (Nabhaan Rizwan), is a wheelchair user, paralyzed after being shot while working as a war correspondent. John Mandel tells the stories of an ensemble of characters around the Great Lakes and their interconnected lives both before and after a devasting flu, a pandemic (hm, sound familiar?) that swiftly has a 99% morality rate. Published in 2014, the novel by Emily St. ' Station Eleven' is not kind to disabled people like me. As a person who is half deaf, I wouldn't make it through the apocalypse, either, at least not according to the most popular fictions of coming dark times. He wears contact lenses and has allergies. The following contains spoilers from 'Station Eleven,' including its finale.Ī friend used to joke, darkly, that he never would have survived to adulthood a century or two ago.

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