BREATHTAKING - itv 9pm -mon 19 - wed 21 - TV PACE NO SPOILERS

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This looks really good and meant to be very powerful

3 parts on this week mon Tue and wed

After the huge impact of Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, another social and political reckoning could be coming with the searing new three-part drama (https://www.stylist.co.uk/tag/drama) Breathtaking.

Based on palliative care doctor and writer Rachel Clarke’s personal memoir about the Covid-19 crisis, the hard-hitting series is an account of the life of a frontline NHS doctor through the pandemic.

“There is so much misinformation and rewriting of history around what really happened inside our hospitals during the pandemic,” says Clarke.

“The truth is, NHS staff gave everything they had in impossible conditions that sometimes cost them their lives.

It is an honour to try and depict the courage and decency of my NHS colleagues on screen, and I’m so grateful to ITV and HTM Television for giving me the
chance to show the public the truth.”

The three-part series is based on Rachel Clarke’s personal memoir, where she wrote about her own experience of working during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Set in a fictional big-city hospital, the drama narrates how frontline medical staff endured fear and frustration as they desperately tried to save the lives of coronavirus patients,” reads the show’s synopsis.

It recounts the devastating impact of the pandemic through the eyes of acute medicine consultant Dr Abbey Henderson (Froggatt).

Who is in the cast of Breathtaking?
• Joanne Froggatt as Dr. Abbey Henderson.
• George Georgiou as Hue.
• Lucy Montgomery as Clare Boxall.
• Georgia Goodman as Divina Aquino.
• Jodie McNee as Jules Jarmen.
• Mark Dexter as Mike.
• Bhav Joshi as Dr. Ant Vyas.
• Henry Meredith as Tommy.

I still saw my family at Christmas 2020 It was my mum my dad my niece and me for a quiet Christmas dinner. But a lot on the Covid board treated me like i was going to an all night rave. I understand why the first lockdown had to happen but the Christmas one was a fuckton of a lot to ask. (though as a carer i was actually allowed to bubble with another household by then) Especially of the child free who locked down for November 2020 (the second lockdown that enabled kids to go to school) Its the lockdown that certain people like to forget about and keep calling the winter lockdown the second one when it was the third. The minimization really pisses me off. So does the accusations of selfishness from activists on Twitter of which Rachel Clarke was one.

Tiers ( and inventing a new tier Tier 4 so families were banned from seeing each other at Christmas) Calling it tier 4 because they didnt want to call it a lockdown was pure gaslighting.

It was abuse.

Maybe ep3 will be about the second lockdown and the tiers today

None of my post was nasty.
Your reply however was.
I’m giving facts you can easily find.

The TikTok dances were totally inappropriate and totally disrespectful.
Do you actually think if what ‘Breathless’ was saying is accurate, that those doctors and nurses etc would be spending their breaks choreographing dances and posting them all over TikTok?

I think they would be a) not barely even having a break and b) sitting eating a snack and doing a wee and then sitting down to catch their breath…..not flipping dancing!

Whilst Patient A was in their last hours for example, what hospital CEO would be allowing their staff to take time out to make up dances, pretending they’re on titanic/trolley etc, being disrespectful and laughing (in their dances)???

Really?

@lovinglaughingliving wow thanks.
Didnt realise that in order to participate on a thread you had to 100% agree with everybody all of the time.
Name calling just belittles everything you tried to write.

Used to hide from the neighbours when they were clapping - seems surreal looking back

Tons of people called them ALL out for 4years and we still are!!
You all just called us conspiracy theorists, shadow banned us and silenced us.

If you could see Hancock giggling/smirking in that interview and realise he was lying, why would you believe everything else he did. Also, why would you believe everything ITV tells you?

I do find it interesting that Rachel Clarke has gone with the same channel that paid Matt Hancock £££££££££ for Im a Celeb!

The TikTok dances were totally inappropriate and totally disrespectful.
Do you actually think if what ‘Breathless’ was saying is accurate, that those doctors and nurses etc would be spending their breaks choreographing dances and posting them all over TikTok?

How many tik tok dances did you see?
( and from the uk )

@Verbena17

Were all medics making tik tok dances?

There was that weird time when some areas had no patients because everything else has had stopped.
eg surgery

Are you a medic @Verbena17

I've just watched last nights episode, and wept solidly.
JFs disdainful face out of the window as the public are bashing pots and pans together, so perfectly captured.

I'm a paramedic. The few weeks before the first lockdown and for a few weeks after were horrendous for us.
Then it did bottom out for us, pretty much only those with covid called 999, i'd not seen quiet spells like that in years. Some of my younger colleagues did some TikTok's - so what?! A bit of decompression was much needed. The horrors we faced in those first few weeks will live with us forever, then wave after wave, lockdown after lockdown.....
it really wasn't all shits and giggles and free pizza. It was a fucking living nightmare.

I shocked myself at such a visceral response watching the first 2 episodes. I've blocked a lot of it out.

@sunglassesonthetable you're completely missing the point.
with their loved ones dying in hospital, who wants to see NHS making up well-choreographed dance routines in their work time? Laughing & posting on social media the dances whilst families are having the worst time of their lives!

How long it took them to learn and record each dance is irrelevant - it’s totally disrespectful!
I’m not posting the links - you can search YouTube yourself.

I was managing paramedic trainees throughout lockdown. We had 2 suicides in our patch because of the trauma and isolation of these young students. I am absolutely not ready to watch this.

I also caught covid 2 days before lockdown as I was forced to go to a pointless meeting at fucking Holiday Inn at Gatwick. I did suggest that I might not be a good idea....I was told I'd be fine and to just wash my hands.

The TikTok dances were totally inappropriate and totally disrespectful.
Do you actually think if what ‘Breathless’ was saying is accurate, that those doctors and nurses etc would be spending their breaks choreographing dances and posting them all over TikTok?

Some medics made tik tok dances?

And ?

out of the thousands of medics involved in dealing with Covid , how many were actually involved in doing tik tok dances?

They are not representative of the majority.

In hindsight they should have been kept private because people outside the profession can not handle the idea of them. And a few tik tok dances have been used as a stick to berate the whole profession.

And actually , personally I don't care. It shows nothing. Those medics were taking a hit for the rest of us.

@Verbena17

I'm asking you to be respectful of what we have been through, instead of essentially accusing us of leaving patients to die alone whilst we danced in some internet craze or skipped the queue at the supermarket.

I doubt Staff on ICU,s were doing TikTok Dances my son was in intensive care a year ago ,as he wss only 16 at he time i was allowed to stay with him for the first six days ( until he started recovering) even in non Covid times it was apparent how hard they worked I can't imagine the pressures they must have been under when Covid hit
Hospitals are big places not all staff would have been working on Covid wards

When masks were made compulsory for supermarket workers and anyone dared to say they struggled to wear them they were shouted down Because

a. it wasnt good enough to wear them and moan about it. You had to wear them and be happy about it.
b. supermarket workers didnt choose a profession where masks were part of the deal.

NHS workers have been treated shamefully but many other key workers, supermarket workers care workers delivery drivers have been treated appallingly both in RL AND on here , The denigration towards social housing tenants EVERY time there is a social housing thread. Where the fuck do people think those doing these low income jobs live. Oh they were the fucking Daddy while delivering people their shit during the lockdowns but as soon as it was over it was back to "oh im not buying a house near social housing"

THIS is why so many of us lower down the social scale (for want of a better description) did not buy the "all in this together" bullshit. Because we knew it would be back to the default setting soon enough. It didnt feel like "all in this together" it felt more like having to protect our "betters" I KNEW this Im not stupid. I also had to carry around a printout in my handbag to show the bubbles rules and how they included carers in case i was stopped by over zealous Plod. So we were closer to papers please than some like to believe!!!!

Agree - if ITU was the front line fine - everywhere else no change - all a complete waste of money as ever in the NHS

@TerrysMum there is a huge difference between nurses and doctors caring for the very sick and sadly dying , then died on their watch

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Supermarkets staff

Yes they may have been at risk with everyone going to the shops but far less risk then working in a hospital or ambulance caring for the sick

I'm amazed you can't see the difference and can compare them

Why would the government and the NHS collude in it all
For what purpose does it serve to nearly bankrupt the countrry for a virus that you say isnt dangerous just why!?

@Blondeshavemorefun that kind of attitude feeds into class discrimination where their is a hierarchy and supermarket = working class job and doctor =career. Its not a great look. It was the supermarket workers and pickers who helped to keep everyone fed including the NHS workers once the panic buying and supply issues were sorted. If i was a supermarket worker i would now be wondering why i bothered to break my back over it. I saw plenty of supermarket workers pushing heavy pallets and struggling to stack heavy goods on shelves while in a mask. In a heatwave! In a job where a mask was NOT part of the deal! This feeds into what i posted above. If all supermarket workers walked out tommorrow how do you think the country including NHS workers would fare!

I feel that a number of posters are not quite understanding the sheer moral outrage which people working with the very sick and dying felt during Covid (be it in care homes or in hospitals). Yes many other workers had a difficult time, but for those seeing close up what was really happening behind hospital and care home doors it is a very important story to tell.
At the time it may have been appropriate to shield the general public from the horrors, and it would have been wrong to show the suffering on prime time TV, however it left a vacuum now filled by falsehoods about the pandemic not being that bad, or politicians “doing their best” or lockdowns being unnecessary.
We now need to face the truth about that reality or the history becomes inaccurate.