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Breathtaking: the Covid drama that may make you scream
theweek ^ | 02/20/2024 | CHAS NEWKEY-BURDEN

Posted on 02/20/2024 10:50:32 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

ITV's new Covid drama "Breathtaking" is "breathtakingly good".

That was Carol Midgley's assessment in The Times. She said "it's the best I have seen" from the lead actor, Joanne Froggatt, because "her performance as the consultant Abbey Henderson was more powerful for being restrained".

This is a "tour de force, exposing political complacency and reminding us how, despite all the clapping, NHS staff, many of whom died in the line of duty, are still taken for granted".

"Rarely does television feel so visceral," said Rachael Sigee on the i news site. "The attention to detail is unparalleled," she added, "from the scuffs on the walls to the red imprints of mask outlines on faces", and "that authenticity carries into the performances".

(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: breathtaking; covid; drama; scream
may make you BARF instead
1 posted on 02/20/2024 10:50:32 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Does it cover fauci, government, social media platforms lying about covid and how to treat it without an untested jab? Because that would be really “authentic.”


2 posted on 02/20/2024 10:55:25 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fluff piece I take it...
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Page Dr.Howard...Dr.Fine, Dr.Howard!
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Where’s our Apologists?
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Three Weeks
To Flatten the Curve.
Three Years
Like Slaves We Served !


3 posted on 02/20/2024 11:01:46 AM PST by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Re: "NHS staff, many of whom died in the line of duty..."

Sorry - stopped reading right there.

Too bad, because I really like Joanne Froggatt.

Froggatt played Lady's maid Anna in Downton Abbey.


4 posted on 02/20/2024 11:08:05 AM PST by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Screenplay courtesy of MI6.


5 posted on 02/20/2024 11:14:13 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Friends don’t let friends watch Television.


6 posted on 02/20/2024 11:38:13 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: eyeamok

That ain’t no sheet.............


7 posted on 02/20/2024 11:44:34 AM PST by Osage Orange (I miss Rush)
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To: Big Red Badger

8 posted on 02/20/2024 11:55:46 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Great Place for a
“Jesus Sticker!”
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Arthur Blessitt Still sells them.


9 posted on 02/20/2024 12:22:11 PM PST by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: BenLurkin
My great one-way aisle story...

Before masks became mandatory, I was shopping at my neighborhood Safeway.

I was mask-less.

Face-to-face, I slightly squeezed by a masked woman, pushing a shopping cart towards me, which was occupying well over half the aisle.

She went ballistic. Accused me of attempted murder, etc., etc.

I never lost my cool. I waited until she was out of breath.

Then, I pointed at her feet and said, "Ma'am, you are standing on the Wrong Way arrow."

She looked like she might explode with rage, then she stormed off without saying a word.

Possibly, my most triumphant moment in 2020!

Still laughing, four years later.

10 posted on 02/20/2024 12:39:25 PM PST by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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