The cast of Judd Apatow's pandemic comedy is almost good enough to make it all seem less unappealing

Given the number of special pandemic reunions and TV episodes set on Zoom calls that came out earlier in the pandemic, you’d think Hollywood would be totally over the gimmick of setting things in a quarantine by now, but no, some big Hollywood people are now just getting around to this timely kind of fun. One such person is Judd Apatow, who—as we reported back in November—is making a Netflix movie about a bunch of actors trying to make a movie while stuck in a hotel during a pandemic. The idea seemed a little questionable when it was first announced, since the pandemic isn’t always super funny, but now Netflix has announced the cast for the film and, damn it, it’s really freakin’ good.