Breathtaking (TV Series) Delay (2024) User Reviews

This is what I was expecting.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 8/10 · 22 February 2024]

The team continue to battle against impossible odds, they have the horrendous task of dealing with a colleague's demise, and have to consider sending an elderly patient back into a care home.

I'd hoped for a little more in the second episode, and that's what we got, this was a mix of moving and sickening, good drama is supposed to make tli feel, and I think this second episode does just that.

I thought Davina's story was very powerful, that scene where the staff informed her husband was a very powerful scene. I lost a friend who was a Filipino Nurse at our local hospital, it made me tear up.

The effects on the staff, those are real, a group of my friends all work for The NHS, I can't imagine what they saw.

The care home scenario, that actually turned my stomach. The news snippets featuring Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock are actually making my blood boil, so expect to be made to feel different types of emotions.

8/10.

Delay

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 14 March 2024]

Just remember folks. When all this was happening they were partying in Downing Street.

The lockdown is happening and Boris Johnson and other cabinet ministers get to have their Churchillian or Tony Blair moment. Standing at the lectern, live on television and taking question from the press. All shown live on television.

As the second episode shows. The doctors and nurses working around the clock. Staying away from their families in order not to infect them. Caring for those patients who had Covid. Watching their colleagues dying of Covid.

Then there was the hospital bureaucracy. In one sense they were only following order from the government. Sending patients back to care homes who then infected others.

As a drama I think Breathtaking hits all the beats. It's not caustic enough as a polemic against the Tory government's handling of the disaster.