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Five Days at Memorial (TV Miniseries)

Five Days at Memorial

2022

Carlton Cuse (Creator), John Ridley (Creator) ...

Vera Farmiga, Cherry Jones, Cornelius Smith Jr., Robert Pine ...

6.9

793

TV Series. Drama TV Miniseries (2022). 8 Episodes. Doctors and nurses at the intensive care unit of a New Orleans' hospital struggle with treating patients during Hurricane Katrina when the facility is without power for 5 days. The story centers on Dr. Anna Pou (Farmiga), a physician who was stuck at a powerless and flooded Memorial Medican Center.

	Author	Review
United States	Chris Evangelista SlashFilm	"A harrowing, disturbing mystery (...) is frightening, frustrating, and worth checking out, if only to get some appreciation for what happened in the aftermath of Katrina".	POS
United States	Kyle Fowle TV Guide	"'Five Days at Memorial' strives to use tragedy to tell a more complex, existential story about everyday human beings who are pushed to their physical and moral limits"	POS
United States	Michael Starr New York Post	"What I really like about 'Five Days at Memorial' is that you almost feel like you're in the eye of the hurricane, both literally and figuratively. The top-notch special effects are alarmingly realistic and frightening"	POS
United States	Daniel D'Addario Variety	"Farmiga does an effective job (...) A show more tightly dialed in to the events that happened at Memorial, and not on a legal aftermath that wends away from the heart of Pou's story, would have been substantially stronger"	NEU
United Kingdom	Lucy Mangan The Guardian	"This extraordinary drama is utterly brutal and utterly compelling (...) Every performance is quietly brilliant in this series (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Valerie Ettenhofer The Playlist	"As a medical thriller, it’s extremely compelling. (...) If you can stomach its unadulterated despair, it’s also a powerfully told story that’s impossible to forget"	POS
Canada	Sarah Sahagian In The Seats	"'Five Days At Memorial' is the sort of drama that makes you think and feel in equal measure. It's a heartbreaking tragedy that earns its pathos (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Kevin Fox Jr. Paste Magazine	"For all my issues with it, I might watch the series again with my mouse hovering over the scene-skip button (...) 'Five Days at Memorial' is an important story that deserved better"	NEU
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"Compelling (...) 'Five Days at Memorial' thus resonates as more than just a disaster movie stretched into series form"	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"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 (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Joel Keller Decider	"'Five Days At Memorial' is a well-written and well-acted treatise on how decisions made in extreme conditions can lead to tragedy, even if intentions were good"	POS
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"Starts strong but peters out (...) For five hours, 'Five Days at Memorial' is designed to twist your very soul into knots and it generally works"	NEU
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"A thought-provoking series with traditional plot and framing devices that lay out events in clear fashion, with the ensemble cast turning in resonant work (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Robert Lloyd Los Angeles Times	"It comes across as unusually lifelike, lacking the glossy sheen that can make a docuseries seem more a Hollywood product than a believable representation of a place, time and people"	POS
United States	Steve Greene IndieWire	"[It] often strives for a level of urgency beyond life-and-death, in a way that can overshadow the potent survival story its cast is telling more effectively (...) A series with its own questions about what constitutes heroism"	NEU
United States	Kristen Baldwin Entertainment Weekly	"It's a show that absolutely should be watched (...) If 'Five Days at Memorial' serves as the catalyst for some kind of official change, that will be all that matters"	POS
United States	Manuel Betancourt AV Club	"'Five Days At Memorial' does an admirable job of not falling back on lazy conclusions (...) This miniseries intentionally sets itself up as a narrative about what accountability can and does look like"	POS
United States	Samantha Coley Collider	"'Five Days at Memorial' urges you to put yourself in the shoes of the survivors and victims. And it demands that we examine the systems that are meant to serve us in a crisis so that something like this never happens again"	POS

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