The scattergun pacing, excessive use of library footage & that friggin' typewriter effect make this hard to watch.
The show feels like a box-ticking exercise; rapidly flipping between each minutiae, each generic & over-dramatic Zoom meeting, introducing what feels like 20 new characters a minute, whilst trying to tell us everything but actually telling us nothing at the same time.
All of this effort to cram in so many supposedly accurate details, and yet Matt Hancock is wearing a rainbow-coloured NHS badge in the first episode!
This show feels as if it doesn't know what it is: a portrait of Boris or a blow-by-blow documentary of the pandemic.
Keeping the focus on him would surely have produced a more watchable, engaging piece of drama.
The show feels like a box-ticking exercise; rapidly flipping between each minutiae, each generic & over-dramatic Zoom meeting, introducing what feels like 20 new characters a minute, whilst trying to tell us everything but actually telling us nothing at the same time.
All of this effort to cram in so many supposedly accurate details, and yet Matt Hancock is wearing a rainbow-coloured NHS badge in the first episode!
This show feels as if it doesn't know what it is: a portrait of Boris or a blow-by-blow documentary of the pandemic.
Keeping the focus on him would surely have produced a more watchable, engaging piece of drama.