With shows delayed for as long as they have been due to coronavirus, a lot of them have finally come back to air future seasons. More still are waiting for their return dates as they were never meant to come back sooner this time around due to all of the delays that take place. But there is one notable change that is worth discussing that is happening much to the chagrin of people who were wanting to watch shows to escape the pandemic. That change is quite clear based on the title of this post.
It only seemed natural that such a thing would happen. Sure, some shows probably went back to what they had planned to do before the shutdowns at least starting out. But then they felt that they had to something about one of the biggest stories of the year. Plus, some of them might have honestly just wanted a reason why the characters would be in masks a lot of the time so they have to worry less about the risk of infection on the show.
Plus, it would be hard for a medical show not to talk about the biggest medical crisis this world has seen since the invention of the television itself. Other shows would want to target the issue as well. I mean, even with everything else going on in the world, you’d still want to cover the pandemic. I know that there has been racism against those perceived to Chinese as a result of this. I’d imagine that a show like Grey’s Anatomy could cover the aspect of medical treatment to someone affected by this pretty well while a show like S.W.A.T. has already covered some of the police aspect of it when a main character’s mother was affected by this sort of thing.
What other aspects could be covered? It is hard to tell just how many shows will cover it and a lot of shows might not actually cover it at all if they would rather discuss other things instead. I’d have to imagine that some do want to try to escape from the pandemic by not focusing on it at all. Others aren’t even set in this world so they wouldn’t need to put in real world issues. Some would be better off not focusing on issues like it. And reality competition shows don’t really need to cover them since their focus is on something else instead. They might put in fake crowd shots like in The Masked Singer. Other shows are set before this pandemic happened. Others still were set to air earlier so there’s no need for them to do subjects about it unless they are renewed for future seasons.
One of the most important things that needs to be done is coordination between shows. For instance, now that NCIS: New Orleans has set some of this show during the pandemic, pretty much every other show still on that’s part of the franchise will now have to put this in the storylines. For instance, NCIS is set to, I believe, at some point in the future. NCIS: Los Angeles must as well, although they still might be covering the planned episodes from the previous season first.
Both MacGyver and Magnum P.I. will also have to cover the pandemic as well. Otherwise, we’ll have to split the canon of those shows into two different aspects where one covers the pandemic and the other doesn’t. I do believe that MacGyver might have been the show that lost the most planned episodes so they may take the longest to write the pandemic onto the show provided that they don’t just start over and repurpose this for later. Some scripts and planned plots could be put in new stories.
Honestly, there isn’t much else to cover about this just yet. Some shows have been better off and have ran as usual on TV. Whether or not they will address the pandemic is currently unknown. How much we will see of it on other shows remain unknown at this point in time. As for how a franchise plans to cover it has to be made clear as one show can’t cover it without all the other shows forced to as well. Let’s hope that there is some coordination between the showrunners as a result. As for all of the plots that we will see, I plan to watch as usual and hope that they are good.
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