“I think you could take this back down to the way the levees were built, right? So many things went wrong. “What lead to this tragedy was a series of failures on every level of government and bureaucratic position,” said Farmiga (“Bates Motel,” “Up in the Air,” “The Conjuring”).
Both actresses recently joined the Washington Post and MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart for a Post Zoom conversation about the series. And Cherry Jones plays nursing director and rotating “incident commander” Susan Mulderick. Anna Pou, a dedicated oncologist who becomes the subject of the investigation surrounding those 45 patients. Without power, stifling heat, dwindling food and water and fetid unsanitary conditions, the hospital resembles a crumbling war zone. “Five Days at Memorial” examines what happens in those five days when then hospital becomes flooded. Did these patients die of natural causes or was homicide involved?
After the water finally receded, 45 bodies were found in Memorial Hospital. The eight-part drama revolves around Hurricane Katrina’s siege of New Orleans in 2005 which caused massive flooding when the levees broke. Based on “Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital,” an acclaimed 2013 book by Sheri Fink, the limited series was created by John Ridley and Carlton Cuse. You’ll also be filled with sorrow and rage.Apple TV +’s “ Five Days at Memorial” is a difficult watch. If you have the stomach to dig into a nightmarish tale of systemic failure and murky medical ethics, you’ll be rewarded with truly masterly performances. The ensemble-including Cherry Jones, Vera Farmiga, Adepero Oduye, and Julie Ann Emery-is working at the height of its powers. “Five Days,” created by John Ridley and Carlton Cuse, is not at all fun to watch-but it is excellent. As the conditions grew increasingly dire, doctors and administrators had to make heartbreaking life-or-death decisions, some of which later tipped into lawsuits and malpractice investigations, which the series also explores in stinging detail. For days, hundreds of suffering patients waited for a reprieve that never came, relying on dwindling fresh water and dying batteries. The hospital, situated at the bottom of the New Orleans basin, went into full triage mode after the levees broke and it lost both electricity and outside aid as the floodwaters rose. The miniseries-adapted from the journalist Sheri Fink’s best-selling nonfiction book of the same name, which was an expansion of her Pulitzer-winning article-is a painful, painstaking vivisection of five harrowing days at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans, following Hurricane Katrina, in 2005.
The new Apple TV+ drama “Five Days at Memorial” is not easy viewing.
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