Where’s @hillbilly ?
Hopefully not watching the news today.
In the office dunny for the first time in ages and its like someones selling tickets to Oasis… got ourselves a good ol’ fashioned game of ‘BattleShits’ goin’ on
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Assert dominance. Grunt louder. Maria Sharapova the fuck outta them.
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My favourite story of the year is from a mate who went for a work poo.
Someone comes in to do the same. And then they start listening, rather softly, to ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’.
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I used to be forwarded a daily email update from a mate that worked at cba - it was an anonymous gmail account called the ministry of poo that would give you a twice daily update on the state of the men’s toilets
“Avoid trap two on the third floor which looks like a fecal Jackson pollock”
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I couldn’t decide which thread this was better suited for, but in the end this place works as the catch-all discussion topic so why not here.
When it comes to movies or TV, which films or series have you seen so far in the 2020-now world that address the COVID situation and who has done it best?
I think the nature of TV writing and development lends itself to shorter lead times and more flexible production so that the best I’ve seen so far has been in eps of Always Sunny in Philadelphia season 15 (2021) and in Curb Your Enthusiasm season 11 and 12 (2021 and 2024)
The only movie I have seen that has featured COVID as a plot point so far is an Indian film from 2021 called “Cold Case”
Will there be more series and films that feature COVID as a part of the story, or at least acknowledge it existed, or will there be a bizarre 5 years or so of film and TV storytelling where the real-life events that happened to us just do not exist as a part of the world on screen, our world and the cinematic stories set in 2020 and onward completely and obviously divergent?
It feels like most people are just pretending it didn’t happen and no one wants stories about it.
There’s a few episodes floating around from the Covid era that do acknowledge it. Pretty sure Brooklyn 99 did a few masked up episodes etc. The thing about it is that it was honestly an absolutely horrific episode in recent human history and not many people want to dredge it up. The only real series that COULD make use of it to drive narrative would be medical shows, but for the long running ones, the massive disease/quarantine trope would have already been covered.
In saying that, South Park’s stuff was pretty funny
Grey’s Anatomy dived right into it.
Being in hospitals during the pandemic wasn’t very exciting.
Lots of scenes of people just getting dressed and undressed from ppe.
Nose swabbing everyone.
Calling in sick.
Also one of my kids is very sick with covid at the moment, went from “I feel a bit off” to coughing his guts up and feeling rotten in about 6 hours.
Hope they get better soon mate
Superstore was probably the best one I’ve seen. It managed to both get the feeling of the time right and also still was funny.
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Billions had a few episodes that addressed it but was not a key plot point.
Knives Out Glass Onion also deals with this in the beginning.
Both more around how the ultra wealthy didn’t have to play by the same rules the rest of us do.
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The Good Fight (P+) spent a whole season dealing with Covid and did a decent job it.
NCIS New Orleans did an episode on Covid. Some Navy ship got infected. They treated it like They were coming into contact with some kind of nuclear leakage or something
I’ve found books have dealt with it well, mostly because they’re dealing less with “Covid” specifically and more the isolation, mental impact, etc that came with it.
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu from 2022 is a really good short story collection about life after a disease outbreak, but it’s a heavy read at times. (There’s also some largely unrelated space stuff in there, but it’s mostly disease life).
In regular NCIS they had a main character’s Wife die of it plus a lot of episodes where you can see characters wearing and social distancing.
It’s pretty surprising that there’s not a ton of movies with COVID as a central premise but I think that the Writer’s strike and people just wanting to forget have meant we’ve had a handful.
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Noticed a few episodes of Blue Bloods and FBI had COVID mentions throughout the seasons of the era, and only in one episode of FBI did they wear masks.