![]() ![]() ![]() You’ll also be filled with sorrow and rage. 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 Sheri Fink shows in Five Days at Memorial, those decisions were revelatory not only of character but of the ethical complexities of making life-and-death judgments in the absence of. 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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