Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle: A Metaphor for Covid-19?
3 min readApr 26, 2020
Is social distancing “too hot to handle”?
It’s another night in quarantine. You log into your friend’s Netflix account (thank you, friend!) looking for some respite for your day. You see a trailer for what looks like another trashy reality show. Does it look fake and terrible? Yes. Does it look like a complete waste of time? Yes. Will you watch it anyway? Probably, yes.