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- Freeform
- Aug 22, 2020
- Freeform
- Aug 22, 2020
Summary The two-night, four-part limited drama series filmed remotely follows three married couples and a pair of roommates, as they deal with love and life under quarantine.
Created By: Joanna Johnson
- Freeform
- Aug 22, 2020
- Freeform
- Aug 22, 2020
Love in the Time of Corona
Season 1
Season Premiere: Aug 22, 2020
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Summary The two-night, four-part limited drama series filmed remotely follows three married couples and a pair of roommates, as they deal with love and life under quarantine.
Created By: Joanna Johnson
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
55
50% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
42% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Rather than feeling gimmicky or tactless, Love in a Time of a Corona actually validates the feelings we're all struggling with in the midst of this global pandemic.
Love In The Time Of Corona isn’t telling any stories that’ll blow you away, but the couples have understandable chemistry, and the production values are surprisingly high, given the restrictions the producers and crew were under.
Some of the stories are fresher than others, but all of them fit together nicely as a portrait of this juncture. The overall tone has a rom-com sweetness to it — none of the central characters is facing financial disaster or death from the disease, and there are no never-maskers afoot.
“Love in the Time of Corona” isn’t exactly good television. But as time capsule of how some were thinking and operating in the nascent days of an ongoing crisis, it is, at the very least, fascinating. ... Robinson and Odom Jr. do some solid work portraying a different version of their marriage, while Bellows and Kihlstedt struggle to embody their characters’ on-and-off again dynamic. Real life friends Dorfman and Qualley clearly have a level of comfort with each other that translates onscreen.
Love in the Time of Corona ultimately manages to rouse with its grand romantic gestures, but too much of the preceding material feels unimaginative, expository and dramatically DOA.
The scripts aren't witty or exciting enough to make us want to relate to these characters, none of whom is compelling enough to make a person want to stick around.
If your TV is show is going to cover the coronavirus you have two choices: Make it light to provide entertainment and escapism, or lean into its darkness and create something just as (or even more) depressing than the nightly news. With pretty people, fake TikTok videos and a sunny disposition, "Corona" clumsily takes the first path, and the result is a cringeworthy series that is difficult to sit through.
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