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Anyone that wants to be an EMT should see this film. All first year medical/ nursing students should be required to see this film along with the documentary Code Black (2013). This is an unflinching peak {and it is just a peak} into what it's like to be an EMT in our cities now. Quite frankly, it doesn't go far enough to show how $hitty EMTs are treated; how the very human beings they try to f ing help don't deserve it half the time, and for some unknown reason it has become way too acceptable by the public to attack - in some cases kill - the EMTs, all for a US average of $19/hr. In my city EMTs get minimum wage ($22/hr). There are no female EMTs in this film and it matters because they are 40% of the workforce. In some cities they are 60%.

Sean Penn is perfect in this film. Alexander Calvert would have been a much better choice than Tye Sheridan as Tye doesn't have the range and facial expressions AC does. The title should have remained as Black Flies due to the black flies that show up when you find bodies around the 10 day mark. The cinematography is Brilliant. The chaos, noise and menacing, threatening behaviors are very very real. People keep comparing this to Bringing Out The Dead which is a completely inferior film to this one; BOTD is kindergarten. They had spot on advisors for this movie and it shows. Some day real soon we are not going to have EMTs in cities - especially the big ones - and this film does a good job as to why.

People start out caring and want to help people, in a short time they have to confront the fact that sometimes people want to cross the line. You see the absolute worst 'humanity' has to offer -at their worst - and it breaks good people. Some people just lose their humanity all together. The only negative to this movie is the unnecessary/useless incoherent sex scenes and this film doesn't go far enough to show the abuse healthcare/Emergency/First Responder workers endure now - and they shouldn't have to. The public needs to have their eyes forced open to see what is really happening to first responders and do their part to stop making it acceptable. Watch this movie 5 times in a row and you will have a good understanding of ONE DAY as an EMT in any given major US city. Ask yourself what you are going to do when there are no more EMTs, and then ask yourself what are you doing to fix it. If you are a caring human being this movie will stay with you for awhile, and it should, so be prepared.

The first series was bad enough, but this was worse. They made Debra's ghost just plain annoying, and chaotic, from calm to screaming in less than a second for some reason. At least Harry's ghost was cohesive, not like Debra's. They say this is some fictional town in upstate NY, except it was filmed in Mass, and acted like Alaska - which would have made more sense given he supposedly ended up in Oregon after the ridiculous hurricane scenario. Don't waste time watching the whole series. Episode one, seven and ten are all that is needed. Harrison is a complete whiny baby, and you wonder why he's even there when he treats everyone like crap until he almost gets killed. This short whatever was a waste of time money and effort. This short whatever was again predictable, slow and unimaginative, just like the original. The supporting characters were marginally better than the original, however Hollywood needs to quit preaching to people and being hypocritical - whining about 'climate change' whilst EVERYBODY drives gas guzzlers and uses gas generators; using rashal slurs whilst pretending to honor tribal culture - except it was completely incorrect and disrespectful to the Indigenous tribes of NY- and get back to decent storytelling!!!! Seriously Hollywood we don't your incorrect and inappropriate preaching, just get back to telling good stories - which in this short run you failed to do - again. There is absolutely no way they are going to be able to resurrect Dexter when they've shot him in the heart - a clean through and through - without some monumental fk - up of a story. Apparently that's all they know how to do with this "series". It gets a 2 for the scenery.

It seems today's storytellers really have a difficult time conveying time frame and accepting that time changes. What is acceptable today will not be acceptable sometime in the very near future. Whilst it does use a lot of real footage and photos, and talks with a few survivors, it does not go far enough. It is disjointed at times and doesn't speak to enough survivors. When a very specific demographic succeeds in blowing up a lot of places in the biggest International city on the planet, you do not go around looking for people that are opposite of said demographic; and we don't want to be preached to about it since we lived through it. If a 5'11 140 lb male 20 - 30 yr old is the perp/suspect, you don't target a 4' 200 lb 70 year old female. To find fault with investigators 20 years after the fact is Asinine. To even bring it up just goes to show that in 2025 people care more about optics than actually saving people's lives; and to preach about how awful it was that police targeted a specific demographic now is a slap in the face to the survivors and victim's family members; and severely minimises the true fear of a population of over 8 million AT THE TIME. I would love to see how these hypocrites would react if they actually lived through an attack on their family member, or themselves. Is it absolutely tragic that Jean Charles de Menezes was killed - yes- AND it's really easy to armchair quarterback that in 2025. The jacka$$e$ that did this were a very specific demographic. That is a fact. You cannot go searching for the opposite and expect to get the criminals. Plus the makers of this series completely forget that Londoners live with bomb attacks - for decades and generations. There was WWI, the Troubles started in 1920, WWII, the Troubles continuing until 2008, and terror attacks in recent years. This series was somehow uploaded out of sequence, so episode three is actually episode four, and episode 4 is actually episode three, so I had to watch it twice. It is appalling and quite astounding that these four idiots only received a minimum 40. What's even more disturbing is that you cannot find any information at all about them. Just like the idiots that attacked NYC. It tells me that England, like the US, has used these idiots to catch bigger fish. Abu Hamza, which radicalised these idiots at least got a life sentence in NY. These four should have been displayed at Traitor's Gate in 2005.