Breathtaking (TV Series) Mitigation (2024) User Reviews

Interesting, but again, not sure they went far enough.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 6/10 · 22 February 2024]

The third wave pushes staff once again to breaking point, Abbey is pushed to the limits, and decides it's time to speak out, and detail exactly what is going on behind closed doors.

I'm not one hundred percent sure they have this series the final episode it needed, I think most of the best content came in Part 2, that really did highlight the fears, the anxieties and the feelings, I think a 90 minute one off drama would have worked better.

I do have issue with the way they portrayed the sceptics, they were almost portrayed as feral and vacuous idiots, and I'm sorry but that wasn't the case, there were many legitimate arguments made, especially about some of the incoherent rules and regulations.

As for the vaccine rollout, no comment there, I only hope the powers that be have learned from what happened here, and have a better plan for when something similar happens again.

6/10.

Mitigation

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 13 May 2024]

The series jumps towards Christmas and the run up to the second lockdown.

By this time there was a winter surge. The government wanted to remove Covid restrictions for Christmas. Only there was a winter surge.

Also the government's shortcomings throughout all this.. It lack of preparedness for the pandemic when it was emerging westwards from China. Then there was the ministers own breaches of the rules that eventually became public. Boris Johnson was a serial offender and has shown no genuine remorse.

The rampant death toll in care homes because people with Covid were sent back. Then spread it to others.

It was a messy conclusion. Maybe they should had gone the polemic route and given both barrels to Boris Johnson and his cronies. That includes the press who were in effect Johnson's fan club at the time. Just check all those 'Brave Boris' headlines when he himself would not comply with the rules his government introduced.

The government gave a lot of money to newspapers in the form of advertising. Keeping them going as no one was buying them during lockdown.

I did like the anti Covid people being shown as idiotic. I think in 2021, every other person I met was a Covid sceptic. All seemed to have gone to the same conspiracy websites and thought they were clever.

Some even going to bereaved families and telling them their loved ones died of something else and it was not Covid.