Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle: A Metaphor for Covid-19?

Tessa Char
3 min readApr 26, 2020

Is social distancing “too hot to handle”?

Image from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Hot_to_Handle_(TV_series)

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.

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Tessa Char

(W)righting the wrongs in the world in justice, feminism, dating, self-help, travel, mental health, and well-life. https://linktr.ee/tessachar