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   Jesse (misc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 01:05:06 JST Jesse

   It's wild how The Leftovers S1 and Mr Robot S2 are both about the 2020s despite being written by people who had never heard of Covid.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 01:05:06 JST Paul Cantrell

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     And let’s not forget Station Eleven, because dang

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     Jesse (misc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 01:26:30 JST Jesse

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     @inthehands Whereas the two I mentioned feel like they capture this unreal feeling of the pandemic that never ended, things continuing on like they're normal even though everyone is dazed from a collective trauma.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 01:26:30 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @misc Yeah, I get what you mean — totally different aspect of the pandemic. Station Eleven is remarkable first for just imagining a pandemic as being a real threat, and not in a zombie movie mode but just “everything is fragile, everything can change.” And the strong divide between the before times and the present captured a lot of 2020; less so the years since.

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     Jesse (misc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 01:26:31 JST Jesse

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     @inthehands Definitely the first episode! But what I get from that show is slightly different - hope that even after the worst case scenarios I dread are ahead of us, humanity can sprout back up through the pavement.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 01:28:13 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @misc Another notable one in this vein is Full-Time Wife Escapist, whose final movie-length episode is one of the very few (only?) things I’ve seen that dealt with the onset of COVID as a major plot point, and actually captured the uncertainty and the emotions of isolation. Most writers have been scared to even approach that!

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     Jesse (misc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 01:31:33 JST Jesse

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     @inthehands Oh, I haven't even heard of this!

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 25-Feb-2024 01:31:33 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @misc It’s a Japanese series, but available on Netflix, I think? And it’s •very• Japanese; not structured or paced for a US audience, and many nuances are culturally illegible to me. Still it’s fascinating, and gives one a lot to chew on.