17 of the Best (And Worst) TV And Movie Things That Came Out of Lockdown

Quarantine wasn’t great for the best of us, and outright the worst for far too many of us. However, when you work in Hollywood (California, not Florida. Side note: Florida, give up you are not winning this name battle), dealing with merely the worst of us isn’t even the best thing that can happen in your day – it’s a guarantee.

But when you have a bunch of professional narcissists, and you tell them no one is going to be hanging onto their every word, thought, and deed for the considerable future, they all tend to go a little nutty. Hence our cultural content climate during the pandemic. Well, that and the … well … everything else, ya know, that led to remarkably weird entertainment coming out that could only be from 2020. These were 15 of the weirdest, worst, and sometimes best things to come out of the quarantine times. Inside not included...

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Best/Worst things to come out of lockdown The Princess Bride, in pieces Dozens of actors, celebrities, and random people that make you go, Hey, it's that guy, got together to individually recreate the entirety of The Princess Bride, scene by scene. CRACKED.COM

Vanity Fair

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Best/Worst things to come out of lockdown Parks and Recre-union This canon inbetweenquel features the cast reuniting during the pandemic, with Jerry-Larry Ferry Garry as mayor of Pawnee and Andy locked in a shed. CRACKED.COM

NBC

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Best/Worst things to come out of lockdown Doctor Strange rewritten Before COVID, Multiverse of Madness was to come before No Way Home leading into the film itself- which means a lot of the ending, including Strange disappearing, would've been vastly different. CRACKED.COM

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Best/Worst things to come out of lockdown The Amazing Spider-Change Before COVID, No Way Home was to come after Multiverse of Madness and would've featured America Chavez doing the ritual Strange screwed up, and even bringing in the other Spideys. CRACKED.COM

MovieWeb

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Best/Worst things to come out of lockdown Community reunion VIRTUAL community TABLE RE Community came back together for a scripted read and a long discussion of the proposed movie. TABLE RE community CRACKED.COM

Community/YouTube

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Best/Worst things to come out of lockdown Raya Raya and the Last Dragon had most of its production meetings over Zoom, including artist meetings, wherein they'd all draw together. CRACKED.COM

The Wrap

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Best/Worst things to come out of lockdown Amy Schumer Learns To Cook Martha's Vineyard is where Amy Schumer, her chef husband, and their baby hung out during quarantine, making food... for television. CRACKED.COM

Food Network

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Best/Worst things to come out of lockdown Amazing Race How to deal with COVID? Turn it into a mystery tour! CRACKED.COM

Entertainment Weekly

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Best/Worst things to come out of lockdown Olympics TOKYO2023 Though it may not have affected what we saw on- screen that much, you can bet the anti-sex cardboard beds that affected the Olympic consextants. CRACKED.COM

Forbes

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Best/Worst things to come out of lockdown 90 Day Fiancé: Self-Quarantined It's as bad and trashy as it sounds. (In an entertaining way.) CRACKED.COM

Variety

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Best/Worst things to come out of lockdown Euphoria Euphoria did two specials, one of them written by the central actress (Hunter Schafer), a rarity as almost every episode is written solely by show creator Sam Levinson. She did that instead of going to a mental hospital, so for once Euphoria was good for someone's health. CRACKED.COM

HelloGiggles

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Best/Worst things to come out of lockdown DDD: Takeout A pandemic will not stop Guy Fieri's unstoppable march across restaurants. DDD: Takeout was created to do what Triple D could not - make Fieri praise his own food. Chefs walked Fieri through a box of specially sent ingredients, teaching him how to cook their recipes. BA TEAVORTOWY ARMY CRACKED.COM

Food & Wine

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Best/Worst things to come out of lockdown Adventuring Party Good After COVID shut down the in-person DnD letsplay Dimension 20, the cast turned to livestreaming a talkback show to deal with the ennui and help keep any content at all happening. CRACKED.COM

Dimension 20 Wiki

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Best/Worst things to come out of lockdown Connecting... A group of friends tries to survive the pandemic by video chatting with each other. It didn't last long. CRACKED.COM

NBC

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Best/Worst things to come out of lockdown The Bubble Judd Apatow allegedly drew on wife Leslie Mann's experiences filming Jurassic World: Dominion during COVID for this film. The Bubble would never have existed any other year. CRACKED.COM

Salon

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Best/Worst things to come out of lockdown The Greatest #AtHome Videos Cedric the Entertainer hosted this showcase of TikTok and YouTube videos created for presumably bored quarantined boomers, with every creator showcased being able to choose a charity for CBS to donate to. CRACKED.COM

CBS

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Best/Worst things to come out of lockdown Tiger King The show that represented its time better than any other. CRACKED.COM