Clockwise from top left: Superstore, Grey’s Anatomy, Chicago Fire, and Chicago Med. Photo-Illustration: Vulture, ABC and NBC When TV slowly started getting back into production late this summer, there was a lot of attention paid to COVID-19 safety. Some of it was haphazard and ineffective, but by and large, there was a widespread understanding that it was vital to try, or at least be seen trying. That was all about behind-the-scenes COVID policy, though.
There’s an impressive amount of hygiene theater. Temperatures are taken and hand sanitizer gets squirted. But then, Benson and Carisi walk into an interrogation room and have a long conversation with a suspect while taking zero precautions. Next, Kat and Rollins question a bartender inside his bar, with nary a mask to be seen.
It’s no easier on comedies. On Superstore, characters are generally coping with COVID as big box store workers by wearing masks while they’re on the store floor and then taking them off in the staff-only areas. It’s not ideal, but it’s better than black-ish, which recently featured an episode where several characters traveled from out-of-state to attend an outdoor wedding. .
I was thinking about the awful state LA is in and wondering how much of it is Hollywood's fault. Capitalism, not COVID, will be the death of us all.
Faaaaaaacts.
Exactly what I’ve been thinking as I watch these shows! Excellent article!
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