Portraits of Grief With Unplanned Relevance

The New York Times writes about two television series that are particularly apt for this moment:

Two recent Netflix series, however, “Never Have I Ever” and “I’m Not Okay With This,” provide a different kind of comfort, particularly in these times: complex and dynamic representations of grief.

Though both shows are obviously oblivious to our current reality, of masks and Zoom calls and desperately baking bread, they serve as an apt metaphor for what we’re facing, with a pandemic causing widespread illness and death. The shows’ respective protagonists, already caught in the tangle of adolescence, itself a time of awkwardness and isolation, exhibit how grief can locate and lodge itself in the body and change how we physically move through the world.

Now on Netflix: Portraits of Grief With Unplanned Relevance