Review: The hellish Hurricane Katrina scenario of ‘Five Days at Memorial’
nypost.comHurricane Katrina on New Orleans in the late summer of 2005.The eight-episode series, premiering Aug. 12 on Apple TV+, is based on Sheri Fink’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name chronicling the hellish five-day timespan at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans as Katrina ravaged the city, breached levees, submerged most of the area underwater and forced the hospital and LifeCare — a private health facility on the 7th floor — to evacuate its patients with deadly results that no one could have foreseen … or, perhaps, even avoided.The series opens on Sept.
11, 2005, 13 days after Katrina first made landfall, when 45 bodies were discovered in the abandoned hospital’s chapel, with no explanation of what happened to them or how they got there.
That’s the thread around which Carlton Cuse and John Ridley build their narrative, flashing back to Aug. 29, as Katrina barrels down on the city and unleashes its fury for what everyone in the hospital assumed would be a bad few days — but nothing they hadn’t been through before.
Right. The main players include Susan Mulderick (Cherry Jones, “Succession”), the nursing director and “incident commander” who discovers, to her astonishment and horror, that the hospital has no official instructions on how to evacuate in the event of a flood; Dr.
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