As some showrunners continue to grapple with the decision to write the coronavirus pandemic into their series, Joanna Johnson took a different approach: writing a new series about the pandemic.
Freeform's Love in the Time of Corona is a four-episode miniseries about the struggles of connecting with other people in a time where safety mandates six feet of separation.
Created by Johnson, who has worked with Freeform exec producing Good Trouble and The Fosters, the series takes place during the early days of L.A.'s stay-at-home orders, in April and May.
That's when she began toying with the idea —Freeform ordered it straight to series May 7 a week after she pitched it —but she and her small room of writers couldn't really work on the project.