Reveling in the post-pandemic oasis of Dollface season 2

polygon.com:

There are about as many ways to handle the pandemic as there are people trying to do so. TV shows are no exception. Certain seriesput the issues front and center: Grey’s Anatomy and This is Us rushed in with the usual melodramatic gusto, while Superstore found its world-weary big-box-store workers on the front line. Others completely punted the question of the pandemic either because it wouldn’t fit with the already specific world of the show (Riverdale can’t put on a musical in quarantine, c’mon) or because they were able to slip in a quick line explaining the pandemic was already over.

So it’s no surprise that Hulu’s Dollface — like And Just Like That, Mr. Mayor, and You before it — quickly leaps to the other side of the pandemic in the newly released season 2. Following Jules (Kat Dennings), having successfully reconnected with her college friends after a break up made her realize she had abandoned them for a man, Dollface is a show that thrives on a social scene. And, after a brief spell of lockdown together and Zoom calls between the four best friends kicking the new season off, the foursome is reunited in person and hitting (if you can believe it) a massive 30 Under 30 party in Los Angeles.

Dollface can’t keep pace with the now of omicron, which is to be expected. Whether shows went all in on pandemic plotlines or not, they have almost always felt a bit out of step with the ever-changing reality of life under COVID-19. They couldn’t keep pace with the memes or the day-to-day choices we have to make around regular hangs, let alone the new variants and pressing grief that came with coronavirus. There’s always some sense of TV shows reflecting back an alternate reality from the one we’re in. It’s weird to watch the