cooped up

It’s one of the many lessons “His Three Daughters” gracefully illuminates, studying a trio of sisters, all cooped up in the same New York apartment, as they prepare for the inevitable passing of their father, who is unseen in a back bedroom.

“And then I went into the bunker,” Schmidt, 48, quips, recalling the profoundly meta experience that demonstrated to him firsthand how quickly some people go crazy while cooped up inside when the world becomes unlivable outside.

People “cooped up with folks they had beefs with killed each other,” he added.

Thanks to a monster snowstorm that hit the area, the family had been cooped up inside for several days — and cabin fever was setting in.

We know he loves a good contrast, and in this case the episode practically writes itself: While Kate is cooped up somewhere in England trying to recover from surgery — or whatever — she caves to public pressure for information about her condition and posts a badly edited photo on social media, thereby turning a fringe internet obsession into an international incident.