The Netflix series about surviving the Canadian wilderness goes awry when it leaves the core story
. One is its presentation of the Canadian wilderness and the other is the outstanding solo work of its star, Melissa Barrera.
Canadian co-creators and showrunners Brendan Gall and Martin Gero have said they wanted to present the beauty and unforgiving landscape as it is, rather than varnished or made ethereal with special effects. That is achieved. It is made crystal clear in the opening where it is set. Liv , a twentysomething Manhattan-based lawyer, is really needing to get to Inuvik in the Northwest Territories, for some reason. She’s so desperate she pays to fly with two rather sketchy guys.
It’s the other segments that disappoint. The many, many flashbacks to Liv’s life are fuzzy drama filled with some ponderous clichés. There’s the matter of Liv’s relationship, separately, with her mother and her father. There is her work at the legal office, where she is a coolly driven, no-nonsense lawyer. And there is her relationship with, it seems, newly acquired boyfriend Danny .
Keep Breathing has neither the psychological heft nor the cunning interplay of before-and-after narratives of Yellowjackets.There has been a rash of survival dramas on TV. Usually there’s a plane crash to kick off the story. followed a group of teenage girls who are left stranded on an island following a plane crash and soon discover that, actually, it is all part of a social experiment.
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