Love, Regret, and Art: Pandemic Lessons from Station Eleven and The Real World
The three themes of lessons learned from HBO Max's Station Eleven are the same as the pandemic: love, regret, and art.

Olya is used to the fact that the whole world lies at her feet. And not because she’s rich or overly ambitious: it’s just that Olya works as a crane operator and knows that it’s better to look down on problems — that way they don’t seem so significant. Olya has a ton of problems: the rent is overdue, the hairdryer broke down at the most important moment, and she’s never had an evening dress in her life — even though today is exactly the day when she desperately needs one. After all, in the evening, Olya goes to the Capella to see and hear the one she came for — her Valya — singing in the second row of the boys’ choir.
The three themes of lessons learned from HBO Max's Station Eleven are the same as the pandemic: love, regret, and art.
This fantasy movie released on Disney+ has strong topics and themes related to magic.
Joel Coen has gone solo to create perhaps the greatest version of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' since Shakespeare himself.
A lot of us are emotionally impacted by the current pandemic. So, while we’re all stuck here in our homes, it’s great to put on a movie to ease the stress. With that, I made up a small list of some of my favorite feel-good movies.
An aspect of She-Ra that I find refreshing is even though a large portion of the cast is on the LGBTQ+ Spectrum, being gay is never mentioned. While this might initially sound like a negative thing, in the show’s land of Etheria being on the gay spectrum is shown to be so common and normalized that straight isn’t the default. As much as there is to appreciate about narratives revolving around the obstacles that may come from being non-heteronormative, it’s nice to get immersed in a world where no one bats an eye at all to any sort of differing identity.