Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a rewatch.Directors Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger combined their talents to assemble this documentary film, conceived by Gibney at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
We have to wonder, even after viewing the film, if they knew what they were getting themselves into.For that matter, we also have to wonder if Gibney, Harutyunyan & Hillinger had anticipated that the response to COVID-19 from the White House would have been so bad.
Totally Under Control provides a play-by-play in the unfolding of the pandemic, denoting each new development with the response by the Trump Administration.