Láska v čase korony (2020)

Láska v čase korony landed in 2020 from Česká televize and felt like one of the first Czech shows willing to sit with the strangeness of that spring. The series jumps between a few Prague households, watching how couples and families tried to hold on while the city went quiet. Some threads move fast, others linger on the same kitchen table for what seems like days, and that uneven rhythm actually matches how time stretched back then. Česká televize kept the production small, shooting in real apartments with natural light and the occasional masked extra in the background. The result looks less polished than usual Czech drama, which works in its favor. You notice the awkward video-call lighting, the way voices crack over bad connections, the sudden arguments that flare up over nothing because everyone is stuck inside. One storyline follows a nurse whose shifts keep her away from her partner for weeks; another tracks an older couple whose retirement plans collapse overnight. Neither feels forced into big speeches. They just keep going, the way most people did. Not every episode lands. A couple of the lighter romantic subplots lean on coincidence a little too hard and start to feel like they belong in a different show. Still, the stronger parts stick because they refuse to turn the pandemic into either tragedy porn or tidy inspiration. Láska v čase korony simply records the small ways affection survived or frayed under pressure. Watching it now, the details that once seemed ordinary - the empty trams, the taped-off playgrounds - already feel distant, which is probably why the series still holds up. It caught a very specific slice of 2020 in the Czech Republic before memory smoothed the edges.