Chris Jones: 'Hamilton' on Disney Plus is dropping into a very different America. How will it land?

"Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now!"

Feeling that today?

If you still needed evidence that Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton" drops (July 3 on the Disney Plus streaming service) into a very different America from the 2015 incarnation of the nation, Eliza Schuyler's famous lyric is here to remind you. It is now hard - if not impossible - for most Americans to feel lucky to be alive right now, however unattractive the alternative.

So what does a show that reminds us so brilliantly of life's brevity, the importance of family and of our own stubborn mortality, have to say to us now?

In a world that has spun forward with stunning rapidity into a