Keep Breathing

2022 - 7 - 28

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'Keep Breathing' starts well as a survival thriller before running out of ... (CNN)

Melissa Barrera has appeared destined for stardom ever since "In the Heights," and her dance card has certainly been full in the time since, including the ...

The six-episode Netflix show actually starts well enough, with Barrera's Liv desperate to find a flight to Canada after hers is canceled and bribing her way onto a private plane that, no spoiler here, crashes into the Canadian frontier. That's not an awful bargain, but if you're waiting for it to get better, well, don't hold your breath. Whether struggling to survive or exhibiting her workaholic side in the flashbacks, Barrera holds up her end of the bargain, but the writing simply doesn't.

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Keep Breathing: Limited Series Review - IGN (IGN)

Keep Breathing is a pedestrian survival drama that's predictable and uninspired from the moment the protagonist's plane goes down.

There's also no reason for a device the series goes on to use: the deceased Sam acting as a negative voice that continues to tell Liv she's going to die. The best there is to say? Otherwise, it seems the rest of Liv’s time willing herself to survive is dominated by men as well. Because the last thing a woman should be taking care of is herself, apparently, and writing like this only serves to drive that harmful narrative home. Interspersed with colorful vignettes that give us a peek into Liv's life before the crash, Keep Breathing showcases the young lawyer's determination to survive the wilderness – even if that means burning piles of money she finds in luggage and burying the oxycodone she found with it. There’s nothing to distract her from her absent mother and doting father’s death…or the skeletons in her closet.

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Keep Breathing season 2: Will there be a second season? (Netflix Life)

I would not get your hopes up for this story to continue. Keep Breathing is billed as a limited series, meaning that the six episodes of the survival drama now ...

But is Keep Breathing season 2 a real possibility at Netflix? We could see how she works through her residual trauma from her own mother leaving her and perhaps even meet her mom in person in the present. Regarding this new show starring Melissa Barrera, the odds don’t seem in its favor to keep going.

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Keep Breathing review – a survival drama so dull it'll send you off to ... (The Guardian)

Would being the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness be deeply soporific? It seems so. Not even the bears add tension in this basic ...

It is an interesting tactic in a robinsonade, to swerve away from all the times the protagonist might be working out how to stay alive. She also got drunk and nearly died in an accidental fire after her father died, although whether this is meant to suggest she is an alcoholic is unclear. There is no question that Liv will escape the downed plane (she hitched a ride with two guys on a light aircraft after her commercial flight was cancelled). There is no question that the surviving pilot will die just after uttering the news that no one knew their flight plan and so no one is coming to rescue them. Any tension there is in Liv’s remarkably non-urgent fight for survival – it takes her until day three to start looking for food, despite the bear eating her power bars early doors – is further dissipated by flashbacks. And there is no question that this will be confirmed when she rescues their kitbags from the submerged plane and finds them full of money and tubs of opiates. Sure, you would rather be there with a little more food and firestarters than the two power bars and soggy lighter that is Liv’s lot by the time she has swum ashore.

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Netflix's Keep Breathing Can't Figure Out How to Balance All It ... (Roger Ebert)

A review of the new Netflix survival series starring Melissa Barrera.

Melissa Barrera is Mexican-born and arguably broke into US stardom via Latinx productions like “ Vida” and “ In the Heights.” Her Liv is also Latina, although we don’t see much more than the fact of her identity. Her reason to keep fighting to survive is because of a fetus inside her. And Liv does reach some revelations: that she was not to blame for her mother’s actions, but she is responsible for her own; that love is valuable even when it can hurt; that her father was imperfect; that so is she. “Keep Breathing” also folds in a psychological thriller with flashbacks to Liv’s past, revealing a long history of emotional wounds, both given and received. She flashes back to her time as a girl scout, remembering how to fashion a compass. Plus, the show does a great job of dramatizing the particular horror of being lost in the woods, the madness of walking in circles, the fear of never finding a way out.

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Keep Breathing review - Melissa Barrera delivers in surface-level ... (Ready Steady Cut)

This review of the Netflix limited series Keep Breathing, starring Melissa Barrera, does not contain spoilers. I am a firm believer in manifestation.

Melissa Barrera sells the modern adult, struck by the lack of technology, doomed by the perils of life-threatening nature. However, the heart of the story is meaningful. In six 30-minute chapters, Keep Breathing does not attempt to overbear the audience with ample of subplots. From childhood to the anguish of a potentially intense romance as an adult, Keep Breathing understands the human condition. Melissa Barrera sells the character by showing the encapsulation of a person who uses emotional avoidant tactics and disassociation throughout her career-driven life to keep steel-hearted. Being in the unknown allows the character to question her life.

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Stranded in Canada's wilderness alone: Netflix series 'Keep ... (Yahoo News Canada)

A new survival thriller from Netflix, Keep Breathing, takes In The Heights star Melissa Barrera and drops her in the remote Canadian north, ...

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Has Keep Breathing been renewed for Season 2? Here's what we ... (The Review Geek)

Renewed Or Cancelled? Keep Breathing is Netflix's simple survivalist thriller, combining a litany of flashbacks with a young woman attempting to survive the ...

Would you like to see Keep Breathing return for a second season? Alone and with scarce resources, Liv is forced to battle the elements and the odds to survive. At the time of writing, Keep Breathing has not been renewed for a second season.

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Stream It Or Skip It: 'Keep Breathing' On Netflix, About A Woman ... (Decider)

Melissa Barrera stars in a limited series as a New York attorney who has to survive in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash.

One of the things we like about the six-episode limited series is that the episodes are all around 30 minutes, so you’re not seeing Liv wandering around the wilderness for hours on end. Barerra is taking on a monumental task here, having to essentially act the majority of the scenes by herself, with only the elements and inanimate objects to play against. She displays the same skills in this series; while Liv is decidedly tougher and more closed off than her Vida character Lyn, both characters are survivors in their own way, determined to live the way they feel they should. In her latest project, Barrera will basically be on screen most of the time, and much of the time she’ll be by herself. The pilot dies in his seat, but Liv somehow manages to get out and drag Sam, who doesn’t swim, to shore. Melissa Barrera’s profile has been on the rise for the past few years, ever since she was cast as one of the leads on the Starz series Vida. Since that show debuted in 2018, she has been in the Scream franchise and the film version of In The Heights. In all of those projects, it was hard to take our eyes off her when she was on screen.

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Keep Breathing ending explained: does Liv survive? (What's On TV)

Keep Breathing ending explained... did the ending to Netflix survival drama Keep Breathing leave you stumped? Here's our recap of the ending of Keep ...

Initially, she grips onto a log for safety, but as she floats down the flow speeds up and she loses her grip and begins floating downriver on her own whilst memories of her past (and visions of her future) flash by her eyes. Although she'd just managed to find a way out of the cave she'd fallen into (where she got the chance to confront the hallucination of her own mother) the good news is short-lived. Having made peace with her life, she decides to head into the water. Just as she climbs out of the cave, Liv takes a horrific fall right back down to ground level and breaks her leg in the process. However, the series does not actually wrap up with Liv back in civilization, and it cuts to black before we see her escape the woods. Across six episodes, Netflix's Keep Breathing sees Liv (Melissa Barrera) desperately fighting for her survival in the Canadian wilderness after being the lone survivor of a plane crash.

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Keep Breathing Ending Explained (In Detail) (Screen Rant)

The new Netflix survival thriller Keep Breathing puts its heroine Liv through the wringer, but does she make it out alive in season 1's ending?

The fact that Liv made it through her ordeal and survived its physical traumas, as well as the myriad hallucinations and moments of suicidal ideation, means she no longer fears becoming Lucia, allowing the Keep Breathing season 1 ending to reassure its heroine. As such, in the ending of Keep Breathing season 1, Liv’s survival and her optimistic outlook on life prove to her that she has not inherited her mother’s instability. The Netflix original show has a closing scene that is clearly intended to assuage concerns that Liv’s life will continue to be full of brutal hardship (which is a reasonable fear for viewers to have, after the trauma the character has endured in Keep Breathing season 1). However, there is a good reason that Keep Breathing does not reassure viewers with the sight of Liv and her mother happily reunited. However, while this ending leaves little room for a season 2 (unlike Yellowjackets), it could be a surprise for some viewers that at no point is a reunion between Liv and her mother Lucia depicted in the montage. This proves to be a problem for the Netflix show series heroine when Liv abruptly leaves work without informing anyone and hops on a plane to visit her estranged mother in Inuvik. The new Netflix survival drama Keep Breathing strands its star Melissa Barrera in the Northern wilderness, and the show’s ending reveals whether or not her character Liv survived her ordeal.

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Keep Breathing Season 1 Review - A flashback-heavy survival story (The Review Geek)

Within 3 minutes of Keep Breathing beginning, 2 flashbacks take place. This essentially sets the precedence for the rest of the season, which lethargically ...

With the emphasis hanging so heavily on the past trauma, the survival elements in the wild take a backseat. The problem is, the show has almost a 65/35 split, with flashbacks dominating much of the run-time. Liv herself is a bit of a mixed bag. Unfortunately, their plane crashes in the middle of the Canadian wilderness and as a result, she’s stranded. Essentially this show plays out like a proverbial tug of war; the flashbacks constantly wrestle against the survival elements in the wilderness. When her plane is cancelled, she hitches a ride with a couple of strangers.

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