Is 'Hot Frosty' the Unifying Force We Need Right Now?

There are certain things, at certain times, that seem to bring people together unexpectedly and entirely without any sort of predictability about them.

I’m thinking about the entire UK population clapping outside their doors for the NHS on a nightly basis during Covid; the chokehold the home-made sourdough loaf had on the world, during that very same period; The Great British Bake-Off, in Ireland and the UK, and perhaps the US although less so here because the episodes are released a day later, and we miss out on the immediate camaraderie of post-ep discussion (Twitter was once useful for that, before it became a no-man’s-land of right-wing weirdos and neo-Nazi sympathisers); and now, Hot Frosty, the little Netflix movie that came out of nowhere and became, in little more than a week, a cultural phenomenon that’s uniting generations.