After the devastating passage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, chronicle the 5 days following the disaster. In a New Orleans hospital, between rising water, power outages, and sweltering heat, exhausted caregivers must make life-and-death decisions about others…
Five Days in Memorial, a TV series produced by Carlton Cuse, with Vera Farmiga, Adepero Odue, Cheri Jones. Available on Apple TV+.
This is a new quality series introduced this week by Apple TV+. Where David Simon’s Treme focused on the physical and psychological impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans families, Five days in the memorial Recalls the horrifying story that journalist Sherry Fink told in a Pulitzer-winning article in 2009: 5 days after the hurricane swept across the country, 45 lifeless bodies were found at the city’s Memorial Hospital.
Then the leaders must be accountable to the government: how did they get to this point? This is the whole point of this series created by Carlton Cuse, which recalls his five trying days, when doctors, nurses and patients tried to survive as best they could. A human tragedy and an unacceptable medical disaster, but also an intense camerawork that pulls you into suspense. This crazy story, told in 8 episodes of 40 minutes, should also have been the focus of American Crime Story season 3 because it is fascinating.
In terms of casting, it’s actress Vera Farmingo who plays one of the main roles, Dr. Anna Poe, who is charged with second-degree murder and attempted murder following the events. Here he responds to Julie Ann Emery (The Preacher), Adepero Odue (In Their Gaze) or Robert Pine (Chris Pine’s father!).
Vera Farmiga stars in Dr. Poe’s Memorial in five days.
Although the series is set in 2005, Five Days at Memorial remains relevant and echoes recent events – as its producer reminds us: “We wrote the scripts at the beginning of the COVID crisis. The parallel was obvious and influenced us in telling the story. We also lived in Canada during filming, in complete isolation, like the people stuck in a hospital in New Orleans during Katrina. This is truly a medical disaster story and completely relevant to the one caused by COVID.“
Ironically, during filming, the crews also encountered Hurricane Ida – which will hit the country in 2021: “After the evacuation, we returned to the scene and there was a field of rubble with debris everywhere. The rising waters did not subside completely and this helped us in filming. But what a shock it was to film after that disaster, it was really moving and made us understand even more the gravity and power of such a disaster.“
Source: allocine
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