HIV and Hepatatis C are now checked routinely before you donate blood or go in for a surgery. But it was not always so. What began as a disease that was nobody’s fault soon became a catastrophe, where thousands were infected for no fault of theirs. Unspeakable miniseries on Sundance takes you back to the 80s and Canada’s biggest and costliest public health disaster.
Unspeakable Series Cast
Based on Canad’s Tainted Blood Scandal, the fictional series is rooted in personal accounts of people expressed in the two non-fiction books: Andre Picard’s Gift of Death: Confronting Canada’s Tainted Blood Tragedy and Vic Parson’s Bad Blood: The Tragedy of the Canadian Tainted Blood Scandal.The miniseries premieres on Sundance and Midnight in April 2019.
Unspeakable (2019)
Developed by: Robert C. Cooper
Cast: Sarah Wayne Callies, Shawn Doyle, Michael Shanks, Camille Sullivan
Network: Sundance, Midnight
Air Date: April 4 2019
Unpeakable Mini-series Story
Unspeakable series follows the decades long saga as people struggled to survive, change the system and battle for compensation for those who desperately needed it.
In the early 1980’s, AIDS emerged and quickly became an epidemic. Those responsible for public safety failed. Thousands died. A second virus, hepatitis C, infected tens of thousands more. People were kept in the dark, afraid to speak out. Ignorance, arrogance, politics and economics all lead to betrayal, to cover-up, to scandal.
Unspeakable is told from the perspective of two families caught in a tragedy that gripped a nation, as well as the doctors, nurses, corporations and bureaucracy responsible.
Unspeakable Series Trailer
Watch this trailer of Unspeakable series and tell us if you like this presentation of the devastating story.
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