Judd Apatow is making a movie during a pandemic about making a movie during a pandemic for Netflix

Some people believe that Judd Apatow has a tendency to make movies that overstay their welcome a bit, and in a perfect confluence of things that are overstaying their welcome, his next movie is actually going to be about a global pandemic—you know, like the one we’ve been in since March or so! It’s not so much a softball for jokes as it is a tee-ball for jokes, like “this pandemic has been going on longer than the sequence in Funny People where they went to Eric Bana’s house and never, ever left.” We’re not saying it’s funny, as this pandemic is still awful and depressing and it’s making everyone miserable, but c’mon. Apatow movies are long, the coronavirus pandemic has been long, Apatow is making a movie about a pandemic. It demands to be acknowledged.