After watching Netflix’s latest docusary, I may never ride the amusement park again
Every week, Netflix Releases a list of the top 10 movies and TV shows that dominate the platform, and the new original docusaries are important for the week of July 21st. It made a big impression on viewers between life and death, ranking seventh in the platform’s most viewed shows. Medical shows, including series like Pitt, Pulse and ER, have always been popular, but Critical is an unpopular documentary depicting a real emergency. What makes it fascinating is the strength and high interests of these situations, where we are not separated from blood, open wounds, emotionally distraught patients and their friends and family.
Interestingly, the show fell from the top 10 pretty quickly. After the first week it fell. That’s not to say it’s not popular, but my personal theory is a bit proven Too much It’s intense for some people. That was my Anyway, the reaction. After a few episodes, I couldn’t keep up with all the harsh, traumatic events. In fact, I was shocked to continue watching after the first episode. This featured four people being thrown or crushed into a malfunctioning amusement park ride. This is the height of summer and there are six flags nearby that my kids and I are often frequent and often. This is not what I want to see.
Whenever I ride a thrill ride where something terrible can happen and I ride the thrill of being an accomplice in my final destination death scene, I can’t be the only person.
The episode depicts the call center of a hospital where the ride was first notified of collapse, with ambulances, helicopters and emergency responders being sent to the scene and later returned with patients with most of the patients unresponsive. Four patients injured at Funfair (as mentioned in the show) are sent to several trauma centres around London, with 40 cameras following them and the medical professionals helping them. The body is opened, scans are taken and physical and neurological damage is assessed, so all treatments are given front row seats. I’m someone who’s been awfully featured in Dr. Pimple Popper’s video, so there were some moments when I had to look away while watching this show. (Spoiler alert: Patients get some kind of epilogue, where they learn that everything has survived, but they are back to a healthy, relatively normal life.)
The show addresses the fact that 50% of London’s calls to trauma centres are due to violence. Such accidents are not very common. Still, with that in mind, I’m in forever panic with the idea that riding a giant spinner at the fair would break away and be a flying projectile.
Critical: Between Life and Death is an incredible show about how close it is for filmmakers to reach such a life-threatening action, but when I watched the show I realized a horror I didn’t even know I had. At least while looking at the pit, there was a sense of relief that it wasn’t real. There is no such comfort here.