Arun Arun
Five Days At Memorial 2022:-
Cast
Vera Farmiga (Dr. Anna Pou)Cherry Jones (Susan Mulderick)Cornelius Smith Jr. (Dr. Bryant King)Robert Pine (Dr. Horace Baltz)Adepero Oduye (Karen Wynn)Julie Ann Emery (Diane Robichaux)Michael Gaston (Arthur ‘Butch’ Schafer)Molly Hager (Virginia Rider)Stephen Bogaert (René Goux)Sharron Matthews (Cheri Landry)Damon Standifer (Emmett Everett)Sarah Allen (Lori Budo)W. Earl Brown (Ewing Cook)Jeremiah Oh (Ken Nakamaru)Tammy Isbell (Gina Isbell)Katie Boland (Kristy Johnson)Darrin Baker (Dr. Martin Bisley)Diane Johnstone (Wilda McManus)
Five Days At Memorial 2022
“Five Days at Memorial” may technically be a historical drama, but it often feels more like a horror show. The Apple TV+ mini-series captures in horrific, you-are-there detail what it was like at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans in the five days after Hurricane Katrina. In fact, the first five episodes play out with one day per episode, as increasingly impossible decisions had to be made. That stretch of “Five Days at Memorial” is some of the most harrowing and well-made television of the year. The final three episodes of this eight-chapter event are less effective, shifting focus to the investigation into the 45 deaths at the hospital as people looked for someone to blame and cramming in so many ideas that it could have been an entire second season. This section also tends to melodrama and speechifying that the other part of the season wisely avoids, likely because it’s trying to do a lot in three episodes with brand new central characters. It’s not bad television by any stretch, but the truth is that the five days speak for themselves, presenting a literal nightmare in a way that’s enlightening, empathetic, and unforgettable.
Some might forget that the end of the storm was really the beginning. At first, it appeared that the brunt of Katrina had spared New Orleans, and “Five Days at Memorial” wrestles with how many mistakes were made after the hurricane, in those days when the levees broke, water started to rise, and everyone who should have acted couldn’t figure out what to do next. When the generators went out, nurses and doctors scrambled to get patients out, but the horrendous governmental response to the crisis didn’t help, and neither did the dangerous conditions all around the hospital. By the fourth day, conversations were unfolding about what to do about pain management. In one scene, different color armbands are put on patients depending on if they thought they could be saved or not. As Wynn says, “In those last days at Memorial, all there was was misery.”
This show can be an incredibly tough watch, especially in the middle episodes when choices regarding pain relief, possibly of the permanent kind, come into play. I do not recommend binging it for anyone’s emotional stability—even those first three could be rough in one sitting—but this is rewarding dramatic television, the kind of show that takes history from the page and brings it to life, honoring both the dead and the people traumatized by Mother Nature and bureaucratic incompetence.
As headlines about natural disasters seem to increase with each passing year, the truth is that there will likely be another Memorial Hospital situation in this country. So much of the human cost of what happened in New Orleans has yet to be fully accounted. “Five Days at Memorial” should help correct that.
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