Seriously disappointed by both considering the massive talents behind them. Love James Graham and Jed Mercutio.

Most reviews I've seen have agreed with me about The Way (not impressed) but disagree about Breathtaking which is worthy (and Joanna is good) and does make my huge point (sending victims back to care homes was insane) but otherwise just hammers home the old media hype.

Well Breathtaking is over and I found it frighteningly one dimensional - rather like the entire panicdemic was. Over reacting - over simplification - dreadful media exaggeration and useless global governments (except Sweden).

The two aspects that shocked me most were the sending Covid people into care homes and AZ not testing the vaccine on a single over 60 person. Frightening.

I'm pro vax and have had all Pfizer and Moderna.

Essentially it was three hours saying one thing - dying is awful for many people, not only the deads.
We could make shows repeating this again and again - cancer; heart attacks; obesity; war.
The reason Mr Bates was som good was that it told a similar story better, with more shades of grey.

I've not seen it yet but if it doesn't show the human cost of the response - the families not allowed to see dying relatives etc - as well as the horror of the virus in the early days for many and lack of preparedness, it is not a drama worth the name. Just propaganda. Disappointing, given those involved.

Wyot wrote:
I've not seen it yet but if it doesn't show the human cost of the response - the families not allowed to see dying relatives etc - as well as the horror of the virus in the early days for many and lack of preparedness, it is not a drama worth the name. Just propaganda. Disappointing, given those involved.

You are not allowed to say that!

It's about washing hands to Happy Birthday, wearing gimp masks and saving the NHS.