Containment

[NeedACleverNN]

New series on E4

Who's watching? Looks interesting

[Blondeshavemorefun]

A Syrian man is found to be infected by a highly contagious virus. He infects multiple people, including his doctor and family, and sets in motion a series of events which lead to a Cordon Sanitaire being placed over Zone 6 of the city of Atlanta.


It's on planner to record at silly o clock tomorrow morning as clashes with stuff tonight

Looks good

[NeedACleverNN]

It's actually quite interesting to watch already

[gingerboy1912]

Just watching it now. Looks promising.

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Seen and loved it

Should hold my interest till walking dead is back :)

[JedRambosteen]

I'm watching too. Catching up on tonight's episode and I keep wondering where the people in the cordon have got their amazing mobile phone batteries from. In quarantine & still charged up...

[Orangetoffee]

I watched the original Belgium series, Cordon, which was really good. Will catch up with this series some time this week and see how it compares.

[MrsJoeyMaynard]

Jed - they have electricity within the cordon. Presumably they have phone chargers lying around too? Especially the people stuck there who live / work within the cordon.

[JedRambosteen]

But the police officer, teacher & rat man in the hospital?

[JedRambosteen]

(i should have been more specific - its the ones on lock down that get me!)

[GinBunny]

Really enjoying it so far, and glad to have found out that it is a one off series, will be tied up at the end and no dragging out to series 2. Just knowing that has made me want to see it through to the conclusion.

Now, while we're here, I'm about to question something about the first episode which will be a massive spoiler if you haven't seen it yet - so please don't read on!



Is this a big enough gap?




Can someone please clear up for me how patient zero got infected because I seemed to have blinked and missed it - he's a bio-terrorist right? How/when did the virus get released?

[Housemum]

They didn't explain that ginbunny - or else I missed it too!

I did wonder at the lack of PPE among the people in the hospital (the doctor in particular), and also given that the officials new the previous day that it was bad, why they didn't stop hospital visits e.g. the school - they could have just said they had a D&V outbreak to avoid panic. And the general ease of how the kids could wander off with rat man.

But I do like a good disaster plot :) (I have wiped out the world on my phone in various ways playing Plague Inc!)

[Housemum]

*knew

[TheUnsullied]

The powers that be are saying it's a bio terrorism attack but there's doubt about that. One of the characters (names haven't been cemented in my brain yet) made a very good point that if patient zero was a terrorist, there's no chance he'd have gone and hidden with his family.

[MrsJoeyMaynard]

I was saying to DH that if "patient zero" was a bio-terrorist, he was doing a really bad job of it. Arrives in the country, goes and hides out at family's house with one quick trip out to hospital because he feels ill? Any half competent bio-terrorist would surely have been skipping about a variety of crowded public places to infect the maximum number of people possible before someone realized they were harbouring more than the common cold.

[GinBunny]

Oh ok, glad is not just me, my attention span isn't the best

There are a lot of holes in the plot and things that don't sit right with me so far and maybe they will be explained later (but I don't think they will!) but that's TV for you. I was wondering why he was ill and the people checking him out in the hospital died before the people that he was living with were symptomatic but guess we just have to accept that.

Oh Housemum I love Plague Inc too. I've wiped out humanity many times, it's very satisfying isn't it!

[KittensandKnitting]

I've actually seen the series... No spoilers here

It's AMAZING!! IMO

[TheUnsullied]

I think that's actually a plot point too Gin...IIRC the teacher was asking questions about it and the doctor looked a bit shifty when he answered that the time it takes to kill depends on their immune system.

[MrsJoeyMaynard]

It's a plausible point about the immune system though, some people are more susceptible or resistant to a particular contagious disease than others.

People who die from real life infectious diseases don't all die at the same length of time after showing symptoms.

[TheUnsullied]

Agreed, but the program makers felt the need to be pointed about the discrepancy and make the bloke giving the answer look shifty

[JamieVardysParty]

It's a great series, only thing that annoyed me was the woman who used to be in Holby's horrendously poor US accent. DH thought she was supposed to be Australian.

[gingerboy1912]

I didn't notice the doctor looking shifty

[TheUnsullied]

Maybe he just has a face that I find shifty I'm always suspicious of authority in shows like this.

[Izzabellasasperella]

I don't understand why they are not treating the people in isolation who are showing symptoms? Surely they would be pumping them full of drugs to try and find a cure.

[spanky2]

The blond curly hair woman said it was genetically engineered and they'd never seen it before. I guess that's why as its a virus and is new. Would anti vitals work? I think it's mainly to make it more scary for us! I had my first containment bad dream last night!

[spanky2]

Virals not vitals.