Five Days at Memorial

Season: 1

Based on actual events from Hurricane Katrina. When the floodwaters rose, power failed, and heat soared, exhausted caregivers at a New Orleans hospital were forced to make profound, heart-wrenching decisions.

Drama

1Thu, Aug 11, 2022

Day One

Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in New Orleans. At Memorial Hospital, the doctors, nurses, and staff tend to patients and brace for the storm.

2Thu, Aug 11, 2022

Day Two

The staff and patients think they’ve made it through the worst—except the waters aren't receding. Reports of a new crisis circulate.

3Thu, Aug 11, 2022

Day Three

As the city floods, the hospital loses power. Mulderick and the staff attempt to cope with the terrible conditions and prepare for an evacuation.

4Thu, Aug 18, 2022

Day Four

Conditions continue to worsen. Mulderick, Pou, and more staff grapple with how to best help their patients—and how that help will be prioritized.

5Thu, Aug 25, 2022

Day Five

With pressures mounting to abandon the hospital, the staff is forced to make challenging decisions.

6Thu, Sep 01, 2022

45 Dead

State investigators begin to explore what happened to the 45 people found dead at Memorial in the aftermath of the hurricane.

7Thu, Sep 08, 2022

Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen

New evidence comes to light as Schafer and Rider dig deeper into their investigation of the deaths at Memorial.

8Thu, Sep 15, 2022

The Reckoning

Pou fights to defend herself. Schafer and Rider push their case forward.