Five Days at Memorial—No Emergency Exit
Five Days at Memorial is an Apple TV+ eight-episode miniseries that premiered on August 22 of this year. Based on the multiple-award winning 2013 book by journalist Sheri Fink, this series revisits the tragic and hellish events that occurred at Memorial Medical Center over five days: August 28 – September 1, 2005—during Hurricane Katrina, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
As floodwaters begin threatening the lower hospital floors at Memorial Medical, electricity is cut off and backup generators fail, temperatures soar to over 100 degrees and food...