Alison Herman TV Critic Before there were single-location concept shows or Zoom table reads, there was the original pandemic-adjacent entertainment: Bocaccio’s “The Decameron,” the 14th-century anthology framed around a group of Italian nobles sheltering from the Black Plague in the Tuscan countryside. A millennium-old book of short stories may be a deep cut even for our reboot-crazed culture, but there’s a certain logic to bringing “The Decameron” back in the aftermath of another society-spanning disease.