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To be clear: I am notmakingthat argument.
But back to how this series handles its (alleged) pandemic setting.
Within the first minute ofBig Sky, we know that there is, in fact, a pandemic happening.
Which suggests that this is an important detail.
But absolutely nothing else in the scene suggests pandemic.
Indoor dining is apparently still happening.
That waitress is maybe six inches away from Jerrie, as opposed to six feet.
Not a single soul in that dinner is wearing a mask.
If these are pandemic times, they sure look an awful lot like regular times.
So does everything in the rest of the first episode.
Certainly not everyone in real-world Montana is adhering to mask-wearing, as thenews makes clear.
And then it doesnt!
It doesnt make sense!
In the last two episodes, the pandemic avoidance is even more egregious.
None of that happens.
Who doesnt these days?
is a thing that Denise could have said, for example.
Which: were these easily acquired?
Is no one buying disinfectant wipes in bulk in Helena right now, just hand sanitizer?
Use soap and water, man!
Heres the thing:Big Skycould have very easily existed in a non-pandemic setting.
(They had other problems, butweve covered those.)
If that was the goal, my masks off to you, sir, because: mission accomplished.
