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Five Days at Memorial ends with uneasy ‘Reckoning’ [Apple TV+ recap] ★★★★☆

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Five Days at Memorial finale recap: Dr. Anna Pou (played by Vera Farmiga) faces the aftermath of her actions in the miniseries' finale.★★★★☆
Dr. Anna Pou (played by Vera Farmiga) faces the aftermath of her actions in the miniseries' finale.
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Five Days at Memorial, the riveting Apple TV+ drama about a hospital staff enduring Hurricane Katrina’s wrath — and the aftermath of their decisions under pressure and hellish conditions — comes to a close this week.

In the miniseries finale, entitled “Reckoning,” Dr. Anna Pou may or may not be put on trial for murder. And investigators Arthur “Butch” Schafer and Virginia Rider come up against the limitations of justice when a city’s future is on trial.

This tremendous series ends on a cloud of doubt, with the promise of lives lived in suffering and uncertainty.

Five Days at Memorial grapples with Hurricane Katrina’s horrible aftermath [Apple TV+ recap] ★★★★☆

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Five Days at Memorial recap Apple TV+: For Dr. Bryant King (played by Cornelius Smith Jr.), the horror is inescapable.★★★★☆
For Dr. Bryant King (played by Cornelius Smith Jr.), the horror is inescapable.
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Apple TV+ drama Five Days at Memorial, about the terrifying conditions inside a hospital after Hurricane Katrina, furthers its investigation into the actions taken by medical professionals in the wake of the disaster.

Investigators Rider and Schafer finally get inside Memorial Medical Center to survey the horrors waiting for them. And beleaguered doctor Anna Pou strengthens her defenses in preparation for a landslide. Bryant and Kristy get to tell their sides of the story, and the cuffs finally come out.

It’s a very fine episode of this miniseries as the show winds down.

Five Days at Memorial tries to make sense of a disaster that left ’45 Dead’ [Apple TV+ recap] ★★★★☆

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Five Days at Memorial recap: After Hurricane Katrina, there's a horrible mess to clean up.★★★★☆
After Hurricane Katrina, there's a horrible mess to clean up.
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Five Days at Memorial looks back at the events of horrifying devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in this week’s episode.

The Apple TV+ show about the terrible deaths of patients left behind after a hospital’s evacuation finally turns its sights on the investigation and trial that followed. As investigators try to work through the impossible situation that lead to the deaths of 45 patients, the show slackens its lead a little now that the “worst” is over. But of course, the ordeal of Memorial is nowhere near finished.

Five Days at Memorial takes tragedy to a powerful place [Apple TV+ recap] ★★★★★

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Five Days at Memorial recap Apple TV+: Don't worry. Help's on the way. (Actually, worry all you want.)★★★★★
Don't worry. Help's on the way. (Actually, worry all you want.)
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Apple TV+ thriller Five Days at Memorial enters its tragic endgame this week, with the Coast Guard forcing everyone out of the hospital. That means some patients will be left alone to die by themselves after Hurricane Katrina’s onslaught. Extraordinary measures must be taken — some ethical, some not.

The show’s cast all do their best work this week, and writer/director/producer John Ridley holds their hand every step of the way, doing right by this amazing assortment of talent.

Hospital staffers make grim choices in Five Days at Memorial [Apple TV+ recap] ★★★★

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Five Days at Memorial recap Apple TV+: Things get increasingly grim inside a New Orleans hospital hit by Hurricane Katrina.★★★★
Five Days at Memorial recap Apple TV+: Things get increasingly grim inside a New Orleans hospital hit by Hurricane Katrina.
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Apple TV+ medical drama Five Days at Memorial, about the terrible misfortune of the staff of an abandoned hospital during Hurricane Katrina, hits the fourth day of disaster this week.

The power is still off, and the A/C is a distant memory. Helicopters are coming to evacuate, but the elevator to the roof is broken. Things are going to get worse before they get better. The gripping drama stays madly compelling and deeply tragic.

Five Days at Memorial captures the horror of Hurricane Katrina [Apple TV+ recap] ★★★★

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Five Days at Memorial recap Apple TV+: Susan Mulderick (played by Cherry Jones) is in charge, but Hurricane Katrina is about to make things spin totally out of control.★★★★
Susan Mulderick (played by Cherry Jones) is in charge at the hospital, but Hurricane Katrina is about to make things spin totally out of control.
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Hurricane Katrina has come and gone and there are 45 unexplained deaths in a hospital in New Orleans. That’s the hook for new Apple TV+ limited series Five Days at Memorial. The titular hospital is a crowbar used to examine the carelessness of U.S. disaster-relief infrastructure, health care and our attitudes toward one another.

This all actually happened. And show creators John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) and Carlton Cuse (Lost) mean to take us uncomfortably close to the truth of what happens when Americans are faced with unprecedented situations … because we are running out of those.

Apple TV+ Five Days at Memorial trailer tracks horrors in wake of Hurricane Katrina

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Vera Farmiga stars in "Five Days at Memorial" on Apple TV+.
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Released Wednesday, the first trailer for Five Days at Memorial depicts the agonizing decisions Hurricane Katrina forced on staff at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans in 2005. The storm itself was just the first of many horrors.

The drama series lands on Apple TV+ on August 12.

Apple TV+ Five Days at Memorial trailer grapples with Hurricane Katrina’s ravages

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Vera Farmiga stars in
Vera Farmiga stars in "Five Days at Memorial" on Apple TV+.
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The new Apple TV+ trailer for the drama series Five Days at Memorial is just a one-minute preview. But it’s a powerful 60 seconds.

It depicts the desperate struggle in a New Orleans hospital in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest storms to ever hit the United States.