Made under the radar and completed the day before the 45th President of America tweeted that he had tested positive for COVID-19, Totally Under Control is a deep dive into the reasons why America's response to the pandemic proved to be so ineffective. Renowned film-maker Alex Gibney scrutinises the US response to the pandemic compared with South Korea. On 20 January 2020 both countries discovered their first cases of COVID-19. At the completion of the film, the novel Coronavirus had claimed the lives of over 220,000 Americans, while only claiming 447 lives in South Korea.