'The Blacklist,' other TV adapt to coronavirus. What's next?
LA TimesWe have been telling stories about the Almost End of the World for a long time now: supernatural or scientific, cosmological cage match or nuclear holocaust, zombie apocalypse or the withering of an abused planet, now underway. But if the quasi-Armageddon we are now enacting, and which has touched many lives with tragedy, is not what film and television have taught us to expect — if it is more boring and irritating and equivocal on the one hand, and sometimes more amusing and playful — it is still unlike anything most Americans have known. It’s comforting to look back through that window, but it can be strange too — “Are you going to wipe down that package?” I remember thinking, watching some fictional person take in the mail, and realizing that things were different now. It ended with a multi-window dance party — because we need that — much as NBC’s perfectly executed “Parks and Recreation” reunion, about maintaining friendships through a screen, ended with a group sing. Science fiction has a long history of warning us about ourselves — listen to “The Twilight Zone,” people — but hopeful, cautionary sci-fi has surrendered to fatalism.
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