How Good Trouble's Joanna Johnson Made a Whole TV Show in Lockdown
The Fosters and Good Trouble, leapt into action with a show about connection during isolation.By May 1, she had the green light for Love in the Time of Corona, an of-the-moment four-part series that encapsulates the anxieties, isolation, and reconnection with loved ones that defined the early days of the pandemic.
Even as she was carving a path of pure innovation in terms of how to make TV or film amid a pandemic, knowing that telling socially relevant stories is also the future of Hollywood, in Love in the Time of Corona, she deftly telegraphed the lead-up to the worldwide outcry against police brutality toward Black people and systemic racism that would occur a few months into quarantine.“It’s the fastest from pitch to completion, I think.
