![]() In a rush to be empathetic, these shows check off "relatable" COVID soundbites faster than The Mandalorian references Star Wars lore. "It allows us to take our deepest fears and turn it into a monster that has a face, so we can literally look our fears in the eye, confront them and hopefully overcome them."īy comparison, shows like Netflix's Social Distance, or NBC's Connecting, or Freeform's Love in the Time of Corona offer the immersion into lockdown life without any of the catharsis. Robert Cargill in a great BBC piece about Host. " Horror works best as allegory," said Sinister writer C. That'd be Shudder's Host, directed by Rob Savage.Īnd that's really what sets Host apart from its Quarantine TV counterparts, that fight-or-flight catharsis that can only come from horror. Which is why it's even more notable that one (1) of them emerged as a straight-up masterpiece of its genre. ![]() They're all thematically similar in their own ways, but the thing they mostly have in common is that they're straight-up terrible. ![]() It did not take long for Quarantine TV to pop up. Reactionary reunions like the Parks & Recreationspecial were a little more understandable, but soon after that came stories conceived and set during the COVID pandemic, mostly filmed remotely and over Zoom, and all striving to relatably capture This Moment. That it would become less of an urgent matter we need to work to get through as quickly as possible and more of the thing we're just living with, what-can-ya-do-shrug.gif? The jury is still out on me being alive and HBO Max just solidified the GvK situation, but Fear #3 was realized a while ago by the entertainment industry's effort to get in on that sweet pandemic juice while the gettin' was good. ![]() Kong in a theater come 2021-is that we, as a society, would normalize the idea of being stuck inside. My biggest concern when All This Shit™ started really popping off in my neighborhood around March-besides A) Dying, and B) The possibility I wouldn't be watching Godzilla vs.
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