TV series

Breathtaking

2024 · 1 season

A harrowing, clear-eyed plunge into frontline exhaustion and grief that leaves you shaken and grateful.

Overview: A searing, thought-provoking and poignant account of an NHS doctor in the eye of the storm during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
How it feels: Bleak, tense, earnest and melancholic. Relentless and demanding.
About: Death, grief, survival, trauma
Content: Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
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Full breakdown

Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: relentless, 4 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: death
grief
survival
trauma
work
Places: hospital
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: true story
serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none