"How do I stop it? I don't want tomorrow to be today! I want tomorrow to be tomorrow!" pleads Sarah towards the beginning of Hulu's new comedy 'Palm Springs.'

"Yeah, that's natural," replies Andy Samberg's Nyles, sympathetically, "Unfortunately, that's never going to happen."

A 'Groundhog Day' style time loop is hardly a new movie concept. But 'Palm Springs,' which stars Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti, takes the trope in a more nihilistic (and topical) direction.

In the film, wedding guests Nyles and Sarah are stuck in a never-ending day, time blurring together as they experience the same day in the desert over and over again. Most of the film is devoted to Nyles and Sarah trying to accept the fact that they are trapped and to make the best of it. It's a funny and surprisingly poignant story.

It's also one that feels more than a little relevant to a world that's been more or less on pause for the past four months.

I'm far from the first person to note that time has seemed to lose its meaning in the last few months. Even now, as life slowly starts to creep back towards something resembling normal, my routine has been boiled down to little more than work and sleep. Trying to limit my exposure to too many other people has dramatically narrowed the list of people I see regularly. I go to very few places. Like a lot of people right now, I wake up and do more or less the same thing every day. Things blur together after a while.

'Palm Springs' deals with a lot of quarantine woes: being stuck with yourself, accidentally developing a sense of security in your new, smaller existence, struggling to do something meaningful in the face of a situation that seems so utterly out of your hands.

But what it may do best is convey the trapped feeling we've all been living with for months now. Except, you know, with an infinite time loop instead of a global pandemic. And with quite a few more laughs.