Biel is a resident of a public hospital. She must stand hundreds of guards and assume that his personal life is in the background. But, when the hospital declares a total strike, without even minimal services, he and the rest of the residents must consider whether to follow it. Can you afford to stop your activity when it has direct consequences on patients? If anyone had wondered how a medical drama like Grey’s Anatomy passed through the filter of Carlos Montero, author of All the Times We Fall in Love and Elite, can be like, in Breathe it seems that they will find the answer.
The cast is one of those that makes an impression among series lovers, especially among Netflix subscribers, who will see a few familiar faces. And it is that in front of the project is Najwa Nimri, who is in parallel in Sagrada familia and worked in the last seasons of Money Heist; Manu Ríos, who was discovered by Montero himself in Élite and who recently went through El silencio; Blanca Suárez, who led Las chicas del cable with which Netflix began its own production in Spain, in addition to Jaguar; and finally Aitana Sánchez Gijón from Velvet or Parallel Mothers.
“With Respira we want to recover the great hospital dramas but with a rabidly contemporary look that we will push to the limit”, Montero explained in the platform’s statement. They consider that it is “the perfect moment to defend the almost heroic work of our toilets, to tell their dedication, their frustrations, their joys and to know that despite everything they continue to watch over us” even though to do so “they have to go on an unprecedented strike”.
The project draws attention, curiously, for this very current look. If Élite lived in a kind of globalized bubble, in which Las Encinas could be a school from the outskirts of Madrid as well as from Mexico City or New York, and in Todas las veces que nos enamoramientos it did develop a more autochthonous look when creating a love story that began in the 11M attack, now Montero will explore the medical drama subgenre from Valencia. Will you try to denounce the political right that underfinances the medical system when it does not directly try to privatize it?
