The one-off special takes viewers inside a care home at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. <\/p>
Viewers of Channel 4\u2019s Help<\/a> are still processing the events of the hard-hitting coronavirus drama, which follows the story of a carer and one of her closest patients during the early days of the pandemic in March 2020.<\/p>\n Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) plays Sarah, a carer at Liverpool\u2019s fictional Bright Sky Homes, who works particularly closely with early onset Alzheimer\u2019s sufferer Tony (Line of Duty\u2019s Stephen Graham).<\/p>\n Sarah\u2019s success with Tony both improves his quality of life and restores her own self-belief, but when the pandemic begins tearing through care homes in the UK, staff are pushed to their limits as they desperately attempt to protect their patients.<\/p>\n The drama received glowing praise from critics \u2013 including a four-star rating in\u00a0RadioTimes.com<\/a>\u2018s Help review<\/a> \u2013 and audiences had a similarly strong reaction.<\/p> We asked our readers to weigh in with their thoughts on the one-off drama, written by superstar Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials), and they were unanimous in their positivity.<\/p>\n Debbie B Spence tweeted that the feature-length programme was \u201cbrilliant\u201d and added that it was \u201cgreat to see so many excellent Northern actors\u201d.<\/p>\n Dr Anne-Marie Wright said that she was \u201ctotally broken\u201d by the drama. \u201cI felt grief, rage, fear and moments of pure joy,\u201d she tweeted. \u201cHelp was superb.\u201d<\/p>\n Ruth Fryman also expressed \u201canger\u201d over the suffering of care home patients and staff, while another RadioTimes.com <\/strong>reader described Help as an \u201coutstanding and thought-provoking piece of television\u201d.<\/p>\n The Care Workers\u2019 Charity, which supports current and former care workers by providing crisis grants, gave the programme its full support.<\/p>\n \u201cAs the UK\u2019s Charity for the <\/span>#socialcare<\/span> workforce, we are proud to see <\/span>#socialcare<\/span> workers being represented in this incredible drama,\u201d the organisation shared.<\/span><\/p>\n Criticism of the programme was minimal, although Siobhan O\u2019Neill did feel that Thorne\u2019s ending was \u201cstretching believability and detracted from the impact up to that point\u201d.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, she agreed that Comer, Graham and their co-stars are \u201cexceptional actors\u201d, while also praising the direction from Marc Munden, who previously worked with Channel 4 on Utopia and National Treasure.<\/p>\n Help is available to stream on All 4. 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