(photo: TNT SERIES / DISCLOSURE)
Just start watching “Epidemic“, no TNT Series, to think: “These Canadians are fast, they managed to turn the whole story of COVID-19 into fiction.” Pure mistake.
It doesn’t take long for the jaw to drop to discover that the French-language production (the original title “pidmie”), by the Montreal channel TVA, was produced before pandemic.
In short: essentially the story of the new coronavirus before it became the planetary catastrophe that remains active 14 months later.
Here the vrus it’s called PIT. The protagonist is the infectious disease specialist Anne-Marie Leclerc (Julie LeBreton), director of the Public Health Emergencies Laboratory. Homeless Inuit (Indigenous Eskimos) suddenly start dying in Montreal. Respiratory diseases spread, killing indiscriminately: the elderly, children, adults, no one is immune.
Anne-Marie begins to investigate the case. From the start (only) the public knows who is to blame: a boring domestic carnivorous mammal. Unable to detect the transmitter, she soon began health protocols: masks, safe areas in hospitals, daily press conferences to follow the evolution of the epidemic.
Right now there is a soap opera behind it. Among the first patients is Chlo (Mlissa Dsormeaux-Poulin), a doctor on call who is the lover of Anne-Marie’s husband. There is also the half-stupid minister who initially discredits the measures taken by the infectious disease. And there is a lot of panic among the population, which is starting to blame the Inuit.
Either way, keeping the right proportions, everything we’ve read or experienced from 2020 to here is summed up in the series. It has a happy ending. Unfortunately, something very far from real life.
“EPIDEMIC”
• Series in 10 episodes. Screening on Friday, at 11:30 p.m., on TNT Series. Also available on TNT Go (for subscribers to pay channels).
“Amateur web enthusiast. Award-winning creator. Extreme music expert. Wannabe analyst. Organizer. Hipster-friendly tv scholar. Twitter guru.”