2021 began with a postponement of hope, the usual optimism surrounding the start of a new year dampened by the bleak reality that all of 2020’s biggest crises will be with us for a while longer.
Continued quarantine, combined with the winter chill, probably makes the January 4 launch of Discovery+ one of the best-timed debuts of a streaming service.
Aspirational and makeover-heavy, with an unmistakable focus on home improvement (at a time when the luckiest of us are forced to stay home as much as possible), the service peddles the fantasies most alluring to us mid-pandemic: easy transformations, uncomplicated domesticity and (oof) housing stability.
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