Breathtaking review: Covid drama is deeply sad and often triggering
After the great critical acclaim for, and political impact of, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, lots of people wondered, half-jokingly, whether ITV could produce more dramatisations of public policy scandals that might lead to some sort of justice for other victims. Right on cue, ITV brings us the harrowing three-part drama Breathtaking, which painfully recalls the blunders, complacency and misfortunes inflicted on NHS in the earlier phases of the pandemic.
