For the most part, TV shows are preferring to pretend COVID-19 doesn’t exist; as
Kim’s costar Simu Liu pointed out, it’s about giving their viewers half an hour of escape.
Like all of those shows, the new season of Catherine Reitman’s Workin’ Moms was shot during the pandemic, under all advisable safety protocols.
But unlike them, the season premiere does acknowledge our current reality for about 40 seconds. It’s pretty clever, and it lets producer-star Reitman vault past the stuff her audience would rather not see and get back to the business of watching the show’s characters lives spin out of control.