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Countries collapse quickly and this is one of the few movies that express that speed.

Set in Mexico, New Order takes from a wedding day through riot to a military coup and beyond.

The story focuses on the events around one family and their servants. Each subplot deals with the personal and family tragedy that evolves.

Each character reacts to their circumstances and the challenges they face - asking us how we would react faced with similar circumstances. Would we buckle under or would we stand for right.

It is well portrayed and acted but be warned it is graphic. The prison scenes in particular are difficult to watch.

Liane Moriaty is a very talented author with some excellent material to base tv series on, but this is perhaps the weakest of her stories. To have it rushed into production (during a pandemic no less) ahead of some of the others, reached an inevitable weak outcome.

The result is a series that fails to use the talented acting pool and meanders through eight episodes to a very weak conclusion.

This is not the next Big Little Lies.

The basic story is nine strangers attending a health spa run by a women who is plaqued by her own demons. Through an escalating series of drug trips each guest has to deal with their own issues.

Listening to the ambulance noises in the background of 'The Morning Show' on AppleTV+.

Increasing each episode.

Wonderful writing to show a normal with covid creeping up on the characters.