The expectations baseline for the number and mix of crazy events that can happen in a given timeframe has been shattered. I‘ll never be able to watch a movie or a dramatic TV show the same way again. Reality has invaded areas formerly, absolutely reserved for fiction.

— Olaf Alex (@olaf_alex) October 2, 2020

Good. I hope more people adopt this attitude. All too often I hear about some relatively-mundane event in fiction, “That could never happen.”

Buddy, have you SEEN real life? Absurdly unlikely and bizarre shit goes down all the time. People want their fiction, I guess, to be more plausible than their reality.