Review: 'Five Days at Memorial' explores medical ethics at one hospital after Katrina
New Orleans is a wonderful city in a dangerous place — half of it sits below sea level, in an area prone to flooding, protected from disaster by levees and luck, neither of which always holds. A new docudrama, "Five Days at Memorial," which premiered Friday on Apple TV+, tells the disturbing story of a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina; arriving in the wake of a spate of real-life floods, it feels oddly topical, and as regards our inability or disinclination to prepare for the worst, even as the odds of its arrival mount, it feels endlessly topical.
Created by John Ridley ("12 Years a Slave") and Carlton Cuse ("Lost") from Sheri Fink's 2013 book "Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital," the series is well-made and often hard to watch.
