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The COVID-19 pandemic swept the world in the early months of 2020, causing massive economic and social disruption. In addition to the disease itself, populations have often dealt with lockdowns, shortages and pandemic fatigue, political and cultural turmoil. This has made the pandemic era a time of exceptional stress. The pandemic has driven some people to seek peaceful escapism in media, but others towards fictional pandemics (i.e., zombie apocalypses) as an alternate form of escapism. Themes include contagion, isolation and loss of control. In media The pandemic has been included in the narratives of ongoing pre-pandemic television series and become a central narrative in new ones, with mixed results. Writing for ''The New York Times'' about the then-upcoming BBC sitcom ''Pandemonium'' on 16 December 2020, David Segal asked, "Are we ready to laugh about Covid-19? Or rather, is there anything amusing, or recognizable in a humorous way, about life during a plague, with all of i ...
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