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Netflix’s ‘Keep Breathing’ Forces Melissa Barrera to Confront the Wild, and Past Pain: TV Review

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Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticSay this much about “Keep Breathing”: It’s admirably immune to streaming-era bloat.Could its story, of a woman confronting the pain of her past while trying to stay alive after a plane crash, have been told in a ninety-minute film?

Well, sure. But in six episodes that hew pretty close to the half-hour mark, the series makes its points, underlines them a couple of times, and then moves on.Here, Melissa Barrera plays Liv, who is clinging to life (get it?).

Liv had the misfortune to wheedle her way into a seat on a small plane headed into a remote area of Canada, which — after an astoundingly unconvincing crash that indicates just how little Netflix is spending on its non-marquee content — becomes her new home.

Like a grown-up, corporate-lawyer version of the protagonist of the YA classic novel “Hatchet,” Liv is surprisingly adept at delving into her own resourcefulness to figure out how to survive.

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