Hit or Miss: Love In The Time Of Corona

Just in time, Freeform’s Love in the Time of Corona, remotely produced, will premiere as a two-night miniseries event, as the pandemic and quarantine lifestyle starts to become the norm for the foreseeable future. 

Love in the time of corona can be tricky, with emotional distance caged under the same roof, or physically separated from those beloved. This limited series will explore four nuanced relationship profiles in the context of the ongoing.

The production value of this series looks nothing like the Zoom readings forced upon us by friends; It is like any other typical TV series. Leslie Odom Jr. and Nicolette Robinson, a real-life married couple, play James and Sade, who had been occupied by work-life imbalance before quarantined together and having to reevaluate their marriage. Another real-life married couple, Gil Bellows and Rya Kihlstedt play a pair of secretly separated parents struggling to keep up in quarantine with their daughter returning home from college.  L. Scott Caldwell plays a woman finding ways to celebrate her 50th birthday with her husband in rehabilitation. Love in the Time of Corona also includes millennial roommates, played by Rainey Qualley and Tommy Dorfman, who explore a platonic friendship that turns sour during the lockdown.

The remotely shot miniseries provides the silver lining of an ongoing experience that has been challenging for most. It might attract criticism by romanticizing a pandemic that has killed 171,000 people in the United States alone. On the flip side, it has been challenging to pretend everything is business as usual while working from home and binge-watching series from a pre-lockdown world. Love in the Time of Corona might connect with the audience in an expected yet refreshing way.

The limited series is created by Joanna Johnson, who previously created Freeform’s Good Trouble, who executive produces alongside Christine Sacani, Robyn Meisinger, Odom, and Robinson. Love in the Time of Corona will air two half-hour episodes over August 22 and 23 on Freeform.