Miniseries · Apple TV
Five Days at Memorial
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Vera Farmiga
Dr. Anna Pou
8 eps
Cherry Jones
Susan Mulderick
8 eps
Cornelius Smith, Jr.
Dr. Bryant King
8 eps
Robert Pine
Dr. Horace Baltz
8 eps
Adepero Oduye
Karen Wynn
8 eps
Julie Ann Emery
Diane Robichaux
8 eps
Michael Gaston
Arthur 'Butch' Schafer
8 eps
Molly Hager
Virginia Rider
8 eps
Sharron Matthews
Cheri Landry
8 eps
Sarah Allen
Lori Budo
8 eps
Darrin Baker
Dr. Martin Bisley
5 eps
Terrence Clowe
Brosset
2 eps
Raven Dauda
Angela
1 eps
Ean Castellanos
Michael Morales
1 eps
Drew Nelson
Nick Edmunds
1 eps
Ted Atherton
Richard Deichmann
5 eps
Shauna MacDonald
Audrey Adams
1 eps
Jameson Kraemer
Wheatly
2 eps
Joy Tanner
Jill
5 eps
Ci Hang Ma
Andrea Chu
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Five Days at Memorial actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Five Days at Memorial reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Serialized.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
When the floodwaters rose, power failed, and heat soared, exhausted caregivers at a New Orleans hospital were forced to make profound, heart-wrenching decisions.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E05
Day Five
With pressures mounting to abandon the hospital, the staff is forced to make challenging decisions.
- Directed by John Ridley
- Written by John Ridley
S01E01
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.
- Directed by John Ridley
- Written by John Ridley
S01E03
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.
- Directed by Carlton Cuse
- Written by John Ridley
S01E06
45 Dead
State investigators begin to explore what happened to the 45 people found dead at Memorial in the aftermath of the hurricane.
- Directed by Wendey Stanzler
- Written by Carlton Cuse
S01E07
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.
- Directed by Wendey Stanzler
- Written by Carlton Cuse
S01E04
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.
- Directed by John Ridley
- Written by John Ridley
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E08
The Reckoning
- Directed by Wendey Stanzler
- Written by Carlton Cuse
S01E07
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
- Directed by Wendey Stanzler
- Written by Carlton Cuse
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Carlton CuseExecutive Producer
- Sheri FinkProducer
- John RidleyExecutive Producer
- Ra'uf GlasgowProducer
- Jan Peter MeyboomProducer
Writing
- Carlton CuseWriter
- John RidleyWriter
Direction
- Wendey StanzlerDirector
- Carlton CuseDirector
- John RidleyDirector
Cinematography
- Marc LalibertéDirector of Photography
- Ramsey NickellDirector of Photography
Music
- Torin BorrowdaleOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
- Apple TVStreaming
- Apple TV Amazon ChannelStreaming
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