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.

@onanotherday my heart ❤️ for your son and you xx

No other choice because it was probably risk your life or a benefit sanction for quitting your job.

This is really sad to watch, not sure why I’m watching as it’s pretty much what I expected, people falling unwell, staff trying and failing to put out fires left right and centre due to lack of equipment/guidance etc etc.
a relative is a nurse and I checked in with her every couple of days, it sounded like she was living through hell.
PS I know the thread title says no spoilers but I’m pretty sure we all know how this one turns out 🫤

And yet some idiots will still vote Tory in the next election. Shame on them.

“ Help” was very good with the always excellent Jodie Comer. I would like to watch it again.

Walked from St Paul's, over the millennium bridge to go to the wall. August 2021.

While watching the first episode, I was reminded by Cheltenham 2 weeks before lockdown I think it was and just so many people there. That definitely should have been cancelled

And the Liverpool football match, wasn't it against one of the Spanish teams as well? So many people mixing when it was already spreading like wildfire. Terrible decisions.

I found that too hard to watch, saw half of it and couldn't come back to watch the rest.

I'll never ever forgive or forget what those cunts in power did to care homes.

I don’t remember the football match but I agree, it was so reading like wildfire. I was so surprised at the guidance watching the programme. I shouldn’t have been but I was

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/officials-to-investigate-potential-covid-19-link-with-liverpool-match

That's the one, just quickly as it's relevant, but I don't want to derail the thread about the TV series.

It made me wonder if there are statistics anywhere showing how Sweden fared in comparison to UK in terms of not only deaths and severity of the illness at the time, but also public health and economy long-term impact. The former statistics will never show a true picture, the WHO should have adopted clear international guidelines as to how to record the deaths and pre-existing comorbidities.

Wasn't a close friend/partner of a Tory MP on the Cheltenham board?

I found it really hard and upsetting to watch, and not sure if I can watch the other episodes. I'm shocked by how it affected me still, but it took me right back to that time, watching the numbers rise every day, and feeling scared and helpless. How those on the frontline -care staff or hospital staff coped and carried on, I really don't know.

Those real life clips especially made me so angry, we were being taken for fools, and being told blatant lies on a daily basis. I hope this serves as an important reminder of just how shocking Boris and the rest of government was in the handling of this, as unfortunately people have short memories. Cannot trust a word they say. I really wish there could be some justice for the mishandling, corruption, dishonesty and total incompetence, but even with the inquiry I can't see that happening.....and no, I did not vote for them

Yup my daughter just qualified as an OT and rotated onto a respiratory ward in January 2020. She worked in the worst hit London hospital at the time I can confirm that the show was very accurate but in real life it was much much worse. Her siblings, dad and I were so worried about her and what she was witnessing we all took it in turns to send her wee gifts through the post to shore up her moral, flowers, chocolate, bath bombs anything that might help. She got through it ok

Not to mention the Liverpool Madrid match after Cheltenham. It was played in Liverpool. 10s of thousands of fans were allowed to travel here from Madrid, the Italian city with the highest cases of Covid at the time. 😡 The Liverpool manager and the players were all worried about the risks to fans! There was, unsurprisingly, a huge increase in Covid cases in Liverpool in the weeks that followed!

Madrid is in Spain

I'm sorry it's effected so many of you esp those on the front line

And brought back bad memories

@PawsisShady sounds horrific 💐

@onanotherday your son 🥲

It was our job - personally working in elder care in the NHS in a very sheltered part of the country but sadness and death is normal but not to minimise what went on in other departments like ITU - no one had been prepared for a pandemic but do you think it was any different in the rest of the world, staff sickness plus usual skivers just made a bad situation worse

I don't think I knew anyone who died from covid - tho odd friend lost elderly relative /parent

And my dad lost a good friend he had known like 60yrs

Hindsight is a wonderful powerful thing

Did we all think 12w it would be over

Let's ride the tide - isn't that what Boris said - 12w and will be over

Yes sure people told him to say that and I think he got a lot of flack when it could have been anyone iyswim

He didn't make the decisions. He got told what to say and do

Our wedding was cancelled May 2020 and venue said to rebook for late 2030 but we said no. Let's leave a year as all will be over then.

Our second date in May 2021 for cancelled as venue opened a week later

A year later nothing changed

It's now heading up to 4yrs. Yes still cases. No not usually deaths

Watched it tonight and it was very well portrayed.
Scary scary days indeed.

I was wondering how the staff could think straight, or prioritise in those conditions,it looked absolutely chaotic and terrifying.
So sad.
Lots was avoidable.
PH weren't taking advice from the front line staff, it is so wrong.

My birthday was during that first lockdown,in the end we'd all had lockdown birthdays hadn't we..

Anyway my view is that sadly it was like that. I have friends who were nurses in front line and speaking to them tonight they said it was like rewatching their lives

But almost weird seeing it via another persona view - tho that was their view at the time

The lack of ppe was disgraceful

Deciding who got it

Kept being told it's all ok when do bloody wasn't

Yes I reliese we didn't know what would happen but I don't think we got told the truth from the start

My dad then 80 was told (as the oldies were) had to stay in and keep safe. The rules of being allowed to meet him at a public park but possibly risk his health as others about - but I couldn't visit him in his own garden where just him and I and mjni blondes so he would be safe - was insane

He said those months were awful as lives on own. Didn't see people - we talked daily on email as deaf but the isolation for his MH was in his opinion worse then if been allowed out and said if ever Happen again he would come fo see me as not seeing me made him mentally I'll

Anyway sorry I regress. Not what this thread is about

It's about the nurses doctors and frontline workers

The risk they put on their lives every day and the sheer extreme of the situation and seems no one cared how they were treated

And again care Homes. Mini blondes and I used to visit one weekly to say hello to the oldies

What they went through not being able to see their loves ones was horrendous to their mental health

Literally locked away. Many died and shouldn't have

E1 def thought provoking

Looking forward (if that's the right word to say about something factual that's so terrifying) on e2 tomorrow - well todsy. I was past midnight

Yes end of March wasn't a good time to have a birthday

Mini blondes had her 3rd and 4th birthday in lockdown and both parties cancelled

Bless her! They all deserve a pay rise!

I have no interest in watching this find it completely distasteful