What I Watched -- What's So Bad About Feeling Good

I had never heard of What's So Bad About Feeling Good until a few months ago.  It was produced in 1968, and stars George Peppard (and how can you not love him after Breakfast at Tiffany's?) and Mary Tyler Moore.

The movie is set in New York City and is about a highly contagious respiratory epidemic.  It's a total trip to watch it after what we've been through in the last few years.  There are debates about whether the illness is real, fights over whether to wear masks (and whether they even do anything), politicians who have other designs (including considerations about an economic crash), a Dr. Fauci character ... really, the comparisons are just too wild.  S and I just keep looking at each other with wide eyes, as if to say, "what the f***?"

It really just felt like we were watching a differently-costumed version of everything that happened in the last three years.

Bottom line: though not an objectively great movie, this is 100% worth watching, even if only to look at whomever you're watching with and go, "what the f***?"