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

[Blondeshavemorefun]

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.

THREAD.

https://x.com/snj_1970/status/1759934297018937607?s=20

I have a feeling that the nurse divinia will die. And show how her death effects her colleagues 🥲

I hope I am wrong but that's the impression I got from e1 last night

Good lord @Verbena17 I thought that misleading crap about the HCID categorisation had died a long time ago! Oh well, once again... it is true that Covid thankfully turned out not to be Ebola, in that it isn't a 50% chance of death if you get it - it's 'only' 1% (if 1% of your workplace died over a few weeks, that would be traumatic). And it's true that once there was a way of testing for it, it dropped out of the scariest categories. What makes this programme so painful is because by March/April 2020 we were starting to know a lot more about Covid, what it looked like clinically, and who was dying of it, to some extent how to reduce its spread, and of course how to test for it. But we had painfully tight access to what we needed to actually DO any of that. With the result that we had to do the only remaining option, which was a hard and incredibly damaging lockdown.

The picture now, with decent vaccination coverage and much more knowledge of how to treat it, bears no relation to that time. Which is why watching this is so intense.

Oh look more corruption 🤬
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/20/michael-gove-failed-to-register-hospitality-from-donor-whose-firm-he-referred-for-ppe-contracts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Sorry don’t get why you’re saying the HCID classification (or lack of it) was crap? 🤔

@PermanentTemporary which HCID criteria on that definition list wasn’t true for ‘Covid’ exactly? In March 2020.

There was a general lack of PPE, so much confusion etc because frankly we had never had a situation like this occur.

One would hope we'd be better prepared next time.

The HCID factors are true, the categorisation was true. Using these things to mislead is just distraction.

Apologies to all posters for allowing the discussion on this programme to be dragged towards yet another conspiracist 'join the dots, sheeple!' thread.

Me and my neighbours were making scrubs for Drs and nurses and it was hard to believe the floods of emails we had for PPE and we were just average people.

Although I’m a day late episode 1 is chilling. The uncertainty of it all for NHS staff must have been absolutely petrifying !

I got suddenly admitted to hospital for an unrelated to covid issue at the end of Feb 2020. Apart from asking if I had been to Italy or China you wouldn’t have known what was about to come.

Considering how things changed in even the week after I got admitted (my follow up checks were all cancelled) I am always “grateful” if that’s the right word, that I was in and out before it turned into what we saw on this show

Will always be grateful to our wonderful medical staff and watching this after watching Partygate on channel 4 a few weeks back it’s sickening that anyone still supports those in power

Guardian review Ouch
https://x.com/snj_1970/status/1759972367835504723?s=20

That is a bit brutal. I’ve not seen Help so can’t comment how well or not it was done but I think Breathtaking is good and thought provoking. If it feels rushed as it says in that, I think it’s because Covid and the guidelines were changing every day plus doctors were very annoyed at management as they should be so no one knew what was happening

Just catching up now and watched E1. Wow, so powerful, I feel like it’s taken me all the way back to March 2020.

its frightening to hear the similar stories on this thread which shows how close to the real thing this actually is.

We were prepared before the Tories were elected in 2010 - see my earlier post.

Just place marking, I'm going to start this tonight, thanks @Blondeshavemorefun

This is horrendous. Made more so by my suspicion that none of these corrupt, morally bankrupt and greedy politicians are ever likely to end up in court.

Gove is currently pretending to care about social housing tenants.

Help was great until the last 10-15 mins where it jumped the shark a bit.

I preferred Breathless (I have watched all 3) but both shows did show the confusion and anxiety well I thought

Agree as guidelines changed almost daily it was so hard for nurses to know what to do

They knew it was wrong to not have the right ppe but nothing they could do

Right here comes e2

Was hard for the public to keep up with the rules too Didnt stop them being fined though. Some of which are still being dragged through the courts now

Were they really not allowed to start cpr until they had ppe?

I can’t believe that was used to happen. Couldn’t do CPR without the right PPE

That's fucking barbaric.

They seem to be treating all the patients with such good care and especially with the matching hearts and moisturising her hands. Was it like that in lockdown?

Cpr is the ultimate aerosol-generating procedure, done on someone who's heart has stopped. Chances of success aren't high. What would you do? Expose an entire ward team to massively increased risk, so that they all have to isolate or get ill, increasing risks to all the patients? Yes it's barbaric. We aren't used to such brutal choices. Trusts developed better policies as more PPE arrived.