The miniseries adaptation of Emily St. John Mandel’s hit novel debuts Dec. 16 on HBO Max.

InPatrick Somerville’sStation Elevenminiseries, the global pandemic starts quietly.

A rumor here, a whisper from a doctor in an inundated emergency room there.

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Gael García Bernal as actor Arthur Leander on ‘Station Eleven’.hbo max

The situation escalates quickly and devastatingly, and the world begins to go dark.

“There is no before,” the narrator says in the teaser.

“Only now.”

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Himesh Patel as Jeevan and Matilda Lawler as Kirsten on ‘Station Eleven’.HBO Max

Watch theStation Eleventeaser above, and check out three first-look photos below.

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Mackenzie Davis as Kirsten on ‘Station Eleven’.hbo max