'Five Days at Memorial's Vera Farmiga and Cherry Jones Detail Powerful Relevance of Apple TV+ Series
In what might be one of TV's more distressing and heartwrenching series to come out of 2022, Apple TV+'s newest offering Five Days at Memorial is a powerful series chronicling the impact of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath on one local New Orleans hospital in 2005. As the floodwaters rose, the power failed and heat soared, fatigued and overworked caregivers were forced to make decisions that would follow them for years to come.
Based on actual events and adapted from the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink, the gripping medical thriller from producing pair Carlton Cuse and John Ridley might serve as an engrossing indictment of government and inaction but series stars Vera Farmiga and Cherry Jones tell PopCulture.com's Tania Hussain exclusively it also acts as "teaching and learning tool" when it comes to this kind of ethical dilemma — something numerous doctors and nurses faced during the pandemic 15 years after Katrina.
