![]() ![]() The kinds of big family sitcoms which Wanda escapes into represent a stable past and a certain arc into the future, one which bends all the way around to the way thing were at the beginning: the same half-hour, again and again, for as long as you need it.With a week of Covid confusion, we are back with some (hilarious) Quarantales (from screaming neighbours to Blackbird Omens), a follow up of that Normal People conversation, a conversation about '90s films (and if we can get past some problematic aspects) as well as discussing the important topic of. Through a deeply shit and worrying time, sitcoms have been a comfort for a lot of us. That timing was quite accidental – WandaVision was first announced back in April 2019 – but it's a truth that's become more pronounced over the last year. While much of WandaVision has been an exercise in fandom-feeding and slightly leaden reveals, this part of Wanda's story touches on something universal and timely. ![]() Over here, comedy viewing was up 40 per cent in the early weeks of the first lockdown. Schitt's Creek and New Girl popped up in the top 10 too. Granted, that's probably not a gigantic real terms leap, but NBC's The Office was the most-streamed thing on American Netflix in 2020 by a huge amount: its 57 billion cumulative minutes of streaming dwarfed 39.4 billion minutes spent watching the second-most streamed show, Grey's Anatomy. With literally nothing to do and literally the entirety of recorded media to dive into, the only thing that would do was a veteran British character actor careening down a Yorkshire hillside in a bath. (I may have been the only one to watch George & Mildred.) Last May, TV channel Gold reported that viewing figures for Only Fools and Horses were up 20 per cent compared to before lockdown and Drama's reruns of Last of the Summer Wine were up 30 per cent. ![]() ![]() All the Biggest WandaVision Fan Theories, Ranked. ![]()
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