Mary McNamara: Why I’m glad to say goodbye to ‘Some Good News’

Let’s hear it for John Krasinski, an entertainment first responder who understood a pandemic-isolated world’s need for connection and celebrity pixie dust and conjured the program to meet it. He had the connections and the direct-to-camera experience to make a show celebrating “good news” that was punchy and polished – and, just as important, the sense to end it before it became, like banana …