Social Distance

Anthology covering various perspectives of the progress of the pandemic. A walk in other people's shoes, if you will. Each episode is a stand alone story with plenty of drama to evoke empathy for characters in unique situations. It can leave you wanting more resolution to some episodes. Overall, the series is enlightening and entertaining.

Dunno what all these negative reviews are talking about, this series was brilliant. I woke up in the middle of the night feeling sick & watched this in one sitting. The last episode "Pomp & Circumstance" was a powerful watch. As the title would suggest its COVID from multiple perspectives, all relevant, all important & some devastating. This show has tapped into the 2020 zeitgeist & will be an important historic reminder for many years to come.

Very progressive, so if you find yourself leaning more conservative, be mindful of which episodes you watch. If you're a covid denier, anti-masker, marriage, struggle to empathize with people who have different life experiences than you, or hate BLM this is definitely not the show for you. If you can put your personal beliefs aside for a few hours, it's a solid watch. Hell, it's not like there's much left to watch 6 months into our quarantining.

Boy do they navigate it all, nothing seems off limits. The episode on the husband trying to navigate raising his son alone while his wife quarantines in a separate part of the house was pretty heartbreaking. I really feel for the families that are/were trying to navigate this level of fear and uncertainty. In many cases, the series makes light of some very dark experiences, so if you're not ready to do that, probably pass it by.

I'm pretty impressed with the acting all things considered. While not every vignette feels professionally acted, it's still impressive to see how they managed to navigate the scenes where they're most likely talking to only a camera. The children definitely steal every scene they're in and often bring lightness into their vignettes.

Overall, I found the show to be often laugh out loud funny as it put on screen the real conflicts we're navigating as a country. From navigating parenting, quarantining, boredom, addiction, and death. As my quarantine has been pretty uneventful, it's given me a lot of perspective on what others might be going through.

What's with the low rating? Mind-blowing! It's a GREAT anthology series about the lockdown and how people coped with it. It's sad, it's funny, it's real and raw.

Whatever your situation was during the lockdown, you'll most probably find it in one of the episodes. It's so frustrating when silly superhero films or action movies have 8-9 stars, and good simple films have only 4 stars? Wow... people shouldn't be able to rate here without some minimum requirements.

This show is more relevant to my lived experience than most shows. It is timely, meaningful, and touching. When we look back, "Social Distance" will help us remember what life was like in 2020.