Five Days at Memorial

EASILY one of the best shows this year and this thing is flying under the radar as far as I can tell which is a shame. The first five episodes in the hospital are incredibly transportive due to the cinematography, set design, and performances. Every actor embraces their role so well and everyone feels so real. This is probably the most grounded show this year while also being able to draw so many emotions out of you. I felt anger, fear, anxiety, endearment, and overwhelming grief and sadness in the first five episodes alone. Episode 5 in particular stands out as one of the most emotional and heartbreaking hours of TV I've ever watched. The only emotion that seemed to be missing was happiness or joy. It is really lacking in levity, but at the same I'm not sure that adding levity to a true story like this would be the right thing to do. I bet that any feelings of levity were severely absent for the real life doctors and patients of this story, and therefore the tone of this show feels like a faithful thematic adaptation. My one complaint was the juxtaposition between the first five episodes and the last three. The first five episodes in the hospital produced some of the most engaging and emotional television I have ever watched, and I just don't think the final three episodes was able to match this. The final three episodes are by no means bad, but they feel like they comprise a completely different of show and inherently the legal aftermath section of the show just isn't going to be as engaging or enthralling as the first five episodes actually in the hospital. Because of this the show dragged a good bit in these last episodes. Once we get to the final three episodes the show also narrows in on continuing Anna Pou's story, but most of the other characters get little to no screen time after being major parts of the first five epodes. I had gotten attached to those characters and there was a harsh cutoff for most of them after the fifth episode. I do, however, think that the final three episodes do a great job of adding complexity to Anna Pou's character and the entire situation at the hospital, as well as adding well-written new characters. Overall, even with the harsh transition after episode 5 I still found this show as a whole to be incredibly engaging and emotional. One of my favorite limited series.

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So many great performances by the actors I can't quite pick a favorite they all deserve awards. The visuals and the setting look amazing and actors are covered in sweat and actually look like they're dying from the bad conditions. Episode 5 was the high point of the series it made me feel all sorts of emotions and not a lot of stuff can make me cry but I sure did for this. It lost some steam in the last 3 episodes and the investigation wasn't as compelling as the rest but i'm still happy with the end result. A must watch for anyone who enjoys real life disaster dramas!

Was a good series for real, the cast gave us the story really in high level of acting, So yah they did great
tho i have many questions in my mind,
how they didn't help them right, i know That natural disasters is really hard and can't be controlled but I'm pretty sure the government could help them better than that
but anyway
great job again i liked and now i know about the disaster

Amazing acting by the whole cast. Good fucking work.

Over all this was a good series. I think they did the perfect amount of episodes, because if they would of done more, it would of been dragging on.

[tv+] The series does not avoid the drama that turns the first five episodes into a true horror story, a painful and emotionally intense experience. But in this way it conveys the desperation and tension inside a hospital without resources. The episodes dedicated to subsequent investigation are less effective, but they extract from the previous emotion the political consequences and the fragility of a memory that adapts to its own ethical values.

If I could get past these eyebrows on episode 6!!!! The unibrow is so distracting!!!

Chilling. Haunting. Don’t go into this expecting anything less than bone-chilling drama, the acting is award-worthy. I won’t forget this one anytime soon. Yikes.