The story is built around a kiss, and how that simple gesture of intimacy is made difficult--and therefore perhaps more special--by pandemic lockdown measures. The desire for closeness and proximity confronts an adversary that insists on distance and isolation. So, if you find Lockdown Boys easy to watch it is probably because it does not make you work too hard.

This simple story comes with an equally straightforward message: that people faced with adversity nevertheless find ways to make do, to manage, to get by, even to access petty pleasures, especially when buoyed by privilege.

To be fair, the series makes no claim to being a work of art. Neither does it claim to make a grand political statement. It offers levity in times when it seems that everything that could go wrong, goes wrong. Here "the medium is the message", as one intelligent person puts it. Simple and straightforward.