One of the sleeper hits for Netflix UK this summer has been a reimagining of Bocaccio’s Decameron as a commentary on pandemic behaviour. ….The narrative arc is fundamentally an investigation of class and character in times of peril…The experience of lockdown has changed lives, and eliminated some, but there is little hope amid the chaos. For all that they might long for a reformed social order, a ‘new normal’, the world outside that breaks into the villa is one of violence and madness. Paradoxically, the decision of the upper classes to protect themselves has also destroyed the institutions that produced order for everyone.
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