TV series summed up in a sentence:
Less a survival show more of a history lesson of the protagonist
Detailed Review:
*Spoiler warning*
What I envisioned was an epic tale of survival in a forest battling mother Nature elements but what I discovered was 80% of a back story of why the protagonist was a b***h before she got on the plane that crashed. The back story did not have enough subsistence for me to care about it. Her mother was also a b***h who left the protagonists father + the protagonist when she was young and that is it, not much else to it to why she was emotionally that way. The only reason she is on the plane is to find out why her mum was a b***h. I do not find any point dragging the back story.
I was however interested in how she left the father of her baby. It was because she had an emotional guard to let anyone into her life because of her mother. OK I get it, thank you. I feel it would have been better using a quarter of the time explaining more why the mother was like this but the protagonist was trying to find out this herself so fair enough. On episode 6 I was struggling to watch anymore silly waste of time back story, I just wanted to see how she got back to civilization.
The show could have been over after episode 1 when she tried to call using her mobile phone and she didn’t know where she was. What she didn’t try to use was her GPS phone map as that does not need a cellular network to function, but we would of missed out on 5 more episodes of mostly nothing happening.
I find this show to copy many elements of a better show called The Flight Attendant. That show revealed parts of the protagonist’s history in line with what was happening at the time to help her get through situations and also self-discover why she is like that. I urge you to watch The Flight Attendant rather than waste time with Keep Breathing.
Summary
If you want to watch a survival TV series, then I do not think this is for you. I have to admit the first episode was pretty good then it got too much into back story that hadn’t emotionally connected me into caring. I don’t feel you can go from epic survival to the most boring of back stories I have ever witnessed.
