Not super eager to watch shows about quarantine?
NBC’s Connecting and Netflix’s Social Distance will not change your mind.
Stories, after all, can be a comfort in times of suffering.
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Dear God, guys, could you give us a few years?
Perhaps let this tragedy steep in some much-needed time before serving it up to us as entertainment?
Only one comes close to succeeding though neither feels particularly welcome.
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during the first several months of the pandemic.
They interact with each other via laptop, filling our screen in a shifting grid of Zoomscape squares.
The effort and ingenuity is very commendable.
But everything aboutConnecting starting with the groaner of a title is painfully on the nose.
This is paired, ham-handedly, with the news of George Floyd’s murder.
Netflix’sSocial Distance, the dramedy created byOrange is the New Blackwriter-producer Hilary Weisman Graham, fares better.
Otherwise, go forth and stream whatever comforts you.
Social Distance is streaming now on Netflix.
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