Five Days at Memorial S01
Director: John Ridley (3 episodes), Carlton Cuse (2 episodes), Wendey Stanzler (3 episodes)
Cast: Vera Farmiga as Dr. Anna Pou Cherry Jones as Susan Mulderick Cornelius Smith Jr. as Dr. Bryant King Robert Pine as Dr. Horace Baltz Adepero Oduye as Karen Wynn Julie Ann Emery as Diane Robichaux Michael Gaston as Arthur “Butch” Schafer Molly Hager as Virginia Rider
Set during the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Five Days at Memorial is a gripping docudrama that chronicles the harrowing ordeal faced by staff at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans. Based on Sheri Fink’s nonfiction book Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm‑Ravaged Hospital, the series captures the tension, moral dilemmas, and human stories of those trapped when floodwaters rose, power failed, and temperatures soared within the hospital Wikipedia+11Wikipedia+11What to Watch+11.
Created for Apple TV⁺ by award-winning showrunners Carlton Cuse and John Ridley, the narrative spans five days during which exhausted doctors and nurses struggled to provide care amid dwindling supplies, rising heat, and crippling infrastructure failures. As conditions deteriorate—ventilators go offline, generators fail, and evacuation becomes impossible—staff must make decisions that have lifelong legal, ethical, and emotional consequences Wikipedia+5Wikipedia+5What to Watch+5.
Vera Farmiga delivers a powerful performance as Dr. Anna Pou, who chooses to stay behind with her patients despite overwhelming risk. Cherry Jones portrays the hospital commander Susan Mulderick, coordinating triage and evacuation strategy under impossible stress. Supporting performances from Cornelius Smith Jr., Adepero Oduye, Julie Ann Emery, Robert Pine, Michael Gaston, and Molly Hager lend depth and nuance to the story’s medical and emotional stakes WikipediaIMDb.
Over the later episodes, the narrative shifts from crisis management to legal and investigative aftermath. Viewers grapple with the revelation that 45 patients died during the ordeal, triggering criminal and ethical inquiries that interrogate whether euthanasia occurred and who bears responsibility—for Memorial’s administration, state investigators, or the caregivers themselves What to Watch.
Critically acclaimed and emotionally wrenching, the series has earned praise for its unflinching realism, character-driven storytelling, and refusal to moralize, leaving audiences to wrestle with the complexities of survival, medical ethics, and human frailty
Set during the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Five Days at Memorial is a gripping docudrama that chronicles the harrowing ordeal faced by staff at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans. Based on Sheri Fink’s nonfiction book Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm‑Ravaged Hospital, the series captures the tension, moral dilemmas, and human stories of those trapped when floodwaters rose, power failed, and temperatures soared within the hospital Wikipedia+11Wikipedia+11What to Watch+11.
Created for Apple TV⁺ by award-winning showrunners Carlton Cuse and John Ridley, the narrative spans five days during which exhausted doctors and nurses struggled to provide care amid dwindling supplies, rising heat, and crippling infrastructure failures. As conditions deteriorate—ventilators go offline, generators fail, and evacuation becomes impossible—staff must make decisions that have lifelong legal, ethical, and emotional consequences Wikipedia+5Wikipedia+5What to Watch+5.
Vera Farmiga delivers a powerful performance as Dr. Anna Pou, who chooses to stay behind with her patients despite overwhelming risk. Cherry Jones portrays the hospital commander Susan Mulderick, coordinating triage and evacuation strategy under impossible stress. Supporting performances from Cornelius Smith Jr., Adepero Oduye, Julie Ann Emery, Robert Pine, Michael Gaston, and Molly Hager lend depth and nuance to the story’s medical and emotional stakes WikipediaIMDb.
Over the later episodes, the narrative shifts from crisis management to legal and investigative aftermath. Viewers grapple with the revelation that 45 patients died during the ordeal, triggering criminal and ethical inquiries that interrogate whether euthanasia occurred and who bears responsibility—for Memorial’s administration, state investigators, or the caregivers themselves What to Watch.
Critically acclaimed and emotionally wrenching, the series has earned praise for its unflinching realism, character-driven storytelling, and refusal to moralize, leaving audiences to wrestle with the complexities of survival, medical ethics, and human frailty