'Five Days at Memorial' examines the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.

"Five Days at Memorial" captures the personal toll and terrible choices made under the most adverse of conditions

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serving as a grim reminder of the catastrophic institutional failures associated with Hurricane Katrina.

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Working backward from the 45 bodies discovered in Memorial Hospital,

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it's an engrossing fact-based look at those five days and their aftermath.

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Despite the title, "Five Days" (which devotes each of the first instalments to a different day) actually consists of eight parts

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The series, which is based on Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink's nonfiction book and was adapted by Carlton Cuse

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