A year and change into the pandemic, we need more from our TV escapes.
In the beginning, I binge-rewatched The Great British Baking Show to escape into a world where the worst possible thing that could happen was your bread doesn t rise, or you lose your cool and throw away your ice cream before presenting it to the judges.
And then I binge-rewatched Gilmore Girls a hermetically-sealed world in which no one is ever truly at risk. The worst possible thing that can get in the way of the Seinfeldian relative nothingness of a Stars Hollow day is you break up with a significant other or get in a (temporary) fight with a parent. Even the 2016 Gilmore Girls reboot, A Year in the Life, somehow remained untouched by the seismic cultural shifts of the Black Lives Matter movement.