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 get what you're saying. It just seems so hard to take in. I had no idea they done that.

Me either @GrandTheftWalrus. Such a shock to me

I'm sorry I posted like that. It is much better to keep a sense of shock about such awful things. They shouldn't happen.

No the way you posted was fine. I honestly just can't get my head round it.

I am so embarrassed to think I was outside clapping - fucking CLAPPING - on a Thursday.

No matter how many interviews I saw or heard with medical staff, I had no idea how bad things were in hospitals. This programme is really showing the harsh reality.

The lack of appropriate PPE is horrendous.

Guess they couldn't put theirselves at risk

And the guidance said ......

Be honest. Would you have wanted to be that close with no protection ?

Yes from what my friend said

The heart made my nose right tingle 🥲🥲

Would doctors have done that? Video call the family and let them know the situation?

We got someone on our estate playing Michael Jacksons Heal The World every Thursday at full volume

Yeah I understand that. Just seems so horrible to not do it.

@HurdyGurdy19 I used to clap in the car as was the way to work

Honestly what the doctors and nurses did was amazing and it is over whelming seeing a programme like this

True facts style documentary's style series

Like the post office

Many sadly didn't know the Extreme the front line workers coped with

I know basic stuff in comparison due to friends being nurses

The violin for mr Williamson was a lovely touch

Wipes eyes

And not sure if saying this makes me crass - but Hope not as also real life history

reminds me of titanic when boat is sinking but the music carries on as they knew the end was near

I'm Glad he grasped his hand

I was a junior doctor on the wards during Covid. Unfortunately Breathtaking was very accurate. I have binge watched the series and could not stop crying and cursing our disgusting government.
The only thing that was not mentioned enough was the generosity of the public. We had so much love and generosity from them. It kept a lot of us going.

Why are you struggling to understand that? Have you seen CPR on television? Do you think healthcare staff should have started CPR without the correct PPE to protect them even though it is an aerosol generating procedure ? Do you not think enough health care staff have died already?

Just watched E2 another harrowing watch showing what the frontline had to contend with and the useless government,PHE etc no real plan it’s unforgivable.

@CloudyYellow 💐💐

Very hard hitting when you see the snippets of government spiel and the stage the rest of the country was at, at the same time as seeing what was happening inside.

NHS nurse and can’t decide whether to watch.
reading the thread brings back the anxiety frustration and powerlessness of ever changing guidelines and lack of answers needed to protect staff and patients.
Such a hideous time, first time I’ve ever felt scared and unprotected at work.

im still full of rage that whilst people had to die alone politicians were having parties.

I noticed the pizzas, the crochet hearts, the painted rainbows and the school making visors. (And obviously the stupid clap.)

Why are you snapping at me? Me and @GrandTheftWalrus said the same thing and how we didn’t understand because obviously we weren’t shown this until just now with this drama. No, I didn’t know that doctors had to wait to start CPR until they had the right PPE on. This drama has taught me that

My friend was video called by a nurse to say her final goodbyes to her husband. I think she was invited in but as she was critically vulnerable herself she made the painful decision not to go. Still haunts her.
She had several calls from them keeping her updated and also enabling her to speak to him a few times.
So I think it must have been quite a widely used method.

Thank you for letting me know, I didn’t realise they would have done that. I can see how being critically vulnerable would have made that a lot harder, like with Mr Williams wife in this

There was so much more. We had fresh cooked food sent in daily along with fruit, snacks and lovely personal care items to cheer us up. The clapping was the least of it tbh. I just feel that this country and the people in it deserve so much more.

@JewelleryCat it was a heartbreaking decision but she had (older, but still) children who were begging her to go one minute and then not the next. Such a horrific choice and she regrets it so much. However there was a nurse sat holding his hand as he passed away and she does take comfort from the fact that he wasn’t alone.

She had to keep herself safe as well but I can’t imagine what a heartbreaking decision she had to do. It’s good she can take comfort in the fact he wasn’t alone when he passed