3/27/2023 0 Comments Ted radio hour warped reality![]() ![]() There are also shows whose parameters bear the hallmark of pandemic production: Covid bottle shows like HBO’s The White Lotus, Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers and the third season of Netflix’s Master of None are almost entirely contained to one vacation locale (and thus shooting location) and a limited cast with few if any extras. And many have sidestepped the pandemic entirely, setting their timelines pre-2020 (HBO’s Mare of Easttown), an alternate reality (HBO’s Succession), or a conveniently unspecific, pandemic-less present (Apple TV’s Ted Lasso). A handful have faded Covid to the background, as a past hurdle overcome, as in HBO Max’s Gossip Girl, which jumped ahead to a pandemic-less, in-school fall 2021. Apple TV’s The Morning Show is one of a few streaming shows to have addressed the pandemic head-on as a major plot point. Broadcast staples such as Law & Order: SVU, NCIS: New Orleans, the Chicago trilogy (Med, Fire, PD) and This Is Us – shows whose mandate is to reflect contemporary issues to a broad audience – all took the pandemic as their backdrop, with explicit references and plot lines involving infections, quarantines, masks and new protocols.īut for streaming shows not beholden to network schedules or expectations of formula, how to handle Covid-19 narratively is a different question, one shows have handled with various levels of skill, if they’ve handled it at all. Superstore, the NBC sitcom that concluded in March, opened its season with an episode on the frenzied, absurd experience of being an undervalued yet heralded “essential worker” at a grocery store at the onset of Covid-19. Grey’s Anatomy, the longest-running primetime medical drama of all time, focused entirely on the virus, reflecting a version of hospital personnel’s reality for the past year, from overwhelmed and infected staff to PPE. The pandemic’s presence on-screen is not a new phenomenon since the fall 2020 season, network shows from medical dramas to sitcoms to police procedurals have incorporated Covid-19 into their plot lines. It remains an open question, however, how much of that reality should enter the frame. The pandemic has undoubtedly suffused streaming TV shows – in scheduling delays, in cancellations, in budgets swollen to accommodate testing and other safety protocols for the cast and crew. In general, shows filmed and released over the past year and a half have revealed how difficult it is to fold a societal rupture as significant, inequitable and diffuse as Covid-19 into television. This mental trick has obviously not come to pass – but it can be seen on TV, as a crop of streaming shows written and produced since 2020 have their timelines proceed beyond 2019, with gazes on the pandemic from direct to oblique to not at all. ![]() That there would be a day, somewhat immediately post-vaccine, when masks (safely) disappeared from restaurants and airports and parties and street corners, that Covid-19 would fade from view, that some type of “return” would snap into place. She is half-Persian and half-Swiss but was born in New York City, where she lives with her family.F or most of 2020 and the first half of 2021, some part of me clung to the fantasy, despite diminishing evidence, that there would be a hard end date to the pandemic. Zomorodi received a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University in English and fine arts. ![]() Martin's Press) and her TED Talk are guides to surviving information overload and the "Attention Economy." Her book "Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Creative Self" (2017, St. She was named one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business for 2018 and has received numerous awards for her work, including The Gracie for Best Radio Host in 20. Prior to her time at WNYC, Zomorodi reported and produced around the world for BBC News and Thomson Reuters, including a few years in Berlin. She also created, hosted, and was managing editor of the podcast Note to Self in partnership with WNYC Studios, which was named Best Tech Podcast of 2017 by The Academy of Podcasters. Zomorodi is a co-founder of Stable Genius Productions and is the co-host and co-creator of ZigZag, the business podcast about being human. She is a journalist, podcaster and media entrepreneur, and her work reflects her passion for investigating how technology and business are transforming humanity. Manoush Zomorodi is the host of TED Radio Hour. ![]()
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