So back in the early days of quarantine I finally watched Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and it felt like a fantasy film. The evil senator played by Claude Rains was moved to suicide by Jimmy Stewart's big speech and then renounced his evil ways?

Over Christmas I watched It's A Wonderful Life for the first time in years and couldn't help but think about how Bedford Falls would probably be decimated decades later like so many other small towns in America by the forces of capitalism. George Bailey's grandkids would probably be saying 'maybe Potter wasn't so bad by comparison.'