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# A Rom-Com Miniseries Made Entirely in Quarantine
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/love-in-the-time-of-corona-tv-show/
- Published: 2020-09-11T12:00:03.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:51:51.000Z
- Description: Love in the Time of Corona is striking for looking like a normal production despite its constraints.
- Author: Dan Schindel
- Tags: Film, Capsule Reviews, COVID-19, Review, Television, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:41 (2019, 2020, part 2)

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You might think that a TV miniseries [hastily ordered to capitalize on a major ongoing pandemic](https://deadline.com/2020/05/love-in-the-time-of-corona-freeform-joanna-johnson-1202928885/?ref=hyperallergic.com), made in the midst of said pandemic, and named after a Gabriel García Márquez novel would be a mite tasteless. And you would be right. The story itself, about the intertwined lives of various characters experiencing romantic difficulties while trying to quarantine and socially distance, is innocuous enough; it’s the context and timing that rankles. More than anything else, though, *Love in the Time of Corona* is just highly generic, written and looking like any other reasonably well-budgeted basic cable show.

And yet that generic quality is its own kind of accomplishment, given that the show was scripted, shot, and edited entirely in quarantine, with a great deal of coordination required between crew members acting remotely. That’s actually quite impressive, especially in a landscape of [entertainers struggling to make do in isolation](https://hyperallergic.com/youtube-creators-covid/) and new productions [mostly taking the form of Zoom calls](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53099283?ref=hyperallergic.com). I can’t really recommend the show, but I *would* recommend reading about [how they pulled this off](https://ew.com/tv/love-in-the-time-of-corona-exclusive-how-it-was-made/?ref=hyperallergic.com).

*All episodes of* Love in the Time of Corona *are available to stream* [*on various platforms*](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/love-in-the-time-of-corona?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*