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Netflix’s ‘Social Distance’ is a tribute to the technology keeping us sane
Netflix’s Social Distance is not the first piece of media to come out of the pandemic, but it represents an understanding between the audience and creators that we have passed a point of no return: The ~current moment~ is not a funny little blip we will look back on in disbelief, but a massive global trauma.
The 10-episode anthology series, executive produced by showrunner Hilary Weisman Graham along with Tara Herrmann, Blake McCormick, and Jenji Kohan, not only recognizes the bizarre reality of living through a pandemic, but looks at it through screens and lenses and long-distance connections — the way we now live our lives.
Each episode follows a different person or family as they cope with their unique challenges of the spring lockdown: a family funeral, prolonged isolation, simmering physical intimacy, and more. Between Haunting, Monsterland, and the Ryan Murphy universe, anthologies are having a moment, and in the case of Social Distance, the format helps solve the specific and increasingly unignorable production hindrances of COVID-19 preventing ensemble casts from gathering together unsafely.
