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Selling Mr. Basden on a Covid rewrite was easy.
âI realized that there was a version of the story, which is about a California holiday not being taken because of coronavirus, that felt interesting to me,â Mr. Basden said. âI felt it had the potential to sum up the year for a lot of families in terms of what their experience has been, with all of the various disappointments along the way.â
Whether Britons need a âcov-com,â as Mr. Allen dubbed the show, remains to be seen. Viewers may prefer to watch anything but a reflection of what they have just lived through. If youâre looking for pure escapism, a show in which a doctor on television is heard intoning, âStay inside, wash your hands, follow the guidelines,â isnât for you. Alternatively, the show could turn the ordeals imposed by Covid into bittersweet entertainment by demonstrating just how universal their effect has been.