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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Jack Seale

Unvaccinated review – the most infuriating TV show of the year so far

Mythbuster … Prof Hannah Fry (centre) with her team of seven naysayers in Unvaccinated.
Mythbuster … Prof Hannah Fry (centre) with her team of seven naysayers in Unvaccinated. Photograph: Jack Barnes/BBC/STV Studios

Can we inaugurate a Bafta for most patient TV host? The mathematician and science podcaster Prof Hannah Fry needs some reward for Unvaccinated (BBC Two), a documentary that requires a near-saintly level of tolerance just to watch, never mind present.

Fry gathers seven of the roughly 4 million Britons who have chosen not to receive a Covid vaccine, in the hope of better understanding them. The unvaccinated septet convene in one of those cosily appointed houses TV producers feel obliged to hire when their documentary might become a reality-TV event – although since nobody actually moves in, the only consequence of this is that Fry has a series of debates in rooms that look poorly ventilated, which makes her brave physically as well as intellectually.

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