They tried, and for the first Ep under these circumstanes I think they did ok. At least they didn't resort to "ripping from the headlines" and just bombard us with depressing covid, racial, violence and fear that's coming at us all day in real life. I did think they very end was pretty bad though - Callen's line to the 2 Russians - about "let's go and order tacos - for 3" - so bad it made me laugh - and that's really not such a bad thing, these days.