Review of Containment

Containment (2016)
6/10
Disappointing acting and many unrealistic details
7 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers
I had high hopes for this, but found it increasingly difficult to get past the bad acting (mainly Lex and Sabine Lommers). Jake and Katie were good though and captured some of the intensity of falling in love during a crisis.

The main characters obsess over wearing rubber gloves at all times, when sleeping, even afraid to shake hands with those gloves. Then they spend the whole show touching their mouths and faces -- but are fine. Having an infected person bump into you can be deadly. Someone dies violently spurting blood all over in episode 12, but wipe them with a napkin dipped and water and they are no longer contagious! Finally the rubber gloves can safely come off for the first time to touch them.

Women somehow keep their hair done and wear makeup each day for weeks of chaos. Thomas (the kid) was horrible -- always cheery after his dad kidnaps him from the hospital with a gun, then the family dies violently, the kid lives on the streets a few days and is then quarantined and then ends up in the middle of a mob, then he's stuck back in quarantine. But still smiling.

The main group who holds up in the data recovery center had this kinda isolation airlock, and quarantines people in there periodically. Then they open it and let others walk through, pass boxes of food through, etc.

In the last episode they are running through tunnels as the the ceiling collapses and coughing from all the dust... as dust masks hang around their necks.

Yeah, it was worth watching I suppose, but a missed opportunity to make something great.
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