This looks good and total Emmy bait for Apple TV+
I love Vera ever since I saw her in Bates Motel.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 22, 2022 4:21 PM |
She looks like Laurie Metcalfe in that still photo
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 22, 2022 4:25 PM |
Well, that looks depressing as all hell.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 22, 2022 4:29 PM |
Yes, depressing as hell, but very good. I can't remember who wrote the articles about the hospital in NOLA killing the patients who couldn't be evacuated (NYT?). It was just like some Lord of the Flies shit how things unraveled and while the decisions these people made were questionable, the conditions were excruciating with no clear signs of rescue or relief. And how the staff turned on one another - doctors vs. nurses, black people suspicious of the decisions of white staff, etc.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 22, 2022 5:24 PM |
I've seen the first three episodes. It's okay. Could be better. I'm glad the story is getting a TV series treatment.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 12, 2022 9:33 AM |
Was t this supposed to be the centerpiece of a Ryan Murphy American Crime Story or some anthology series?
by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 12, 2022 9:59 AM |
R6, Originally, he was going to adapt Douglas Brinkley's The Great Deluge (starring Annette Bening and Dennis Quaid) for Season 2. He postponed that and then changed lanes to Five Days at Memorial for Season 3 with some of his regular stars, before abandoning a Katrina-based series all-together. It probably was a bad fit tbh.
If he resurrects American Crime Story, he should do a series based on Jonbenet Ramsey or Michael Jackson. Apparently, he has chosen Studio 54 for Season 4.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 12, 2022 10:19 AM |
This worked out very well for them.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 12, 2022 1:18 PM |
Love her.
She has not aged well.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 12, 2022 1:55 PM |
[quote] Originally, he was going to adapt Douglas Brinkley's The Great Deluge
The Great Deluge is a big, complex story & really deserves the full HBO/Big Budget treatment to do it right, but because it's such recent history & touches raw nerves like race, class, government ineptitude, indifference to the poor, environmental disasters - the list goes on - it'd be a very hard story to tell in an objective & concise way
by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 12, 2022 2:05 PM |
I can't watch this. I'm from New Orleans and I knew Anna. She got railroaded. First by her hospital system who called her in to a meeting with a a lawyer, questioned her for hours, then when she asked what the lawyer was gong to do next, they said, oh you misunderstand, we're the *hospitals* lawyer. We don't represent you. You need to get your own lawyer.
Then she and her family were stalked and harassed by Sheri Fink at the NYT and basically told, I want to tell your side of the story, but if you don't cooperate, it's gonna look bad for you.
Won't watch it.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 12, 2022 2:33 PM |
Why would anyone watch this?
There is zero audience for this. Blacks don’t have Apple+.
How very dumb.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 12, 2022 2:51 PM |
[quote]Why would anyone watch this? There is zero audience for this.
Anderson Cooper?
by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 12, 2022 3:39 PM |
😂😂😂
by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 12, 2022 3:41 PM |
That's very interesting R11; sadly, not surprising that these people were put in a terrible situation then left on their own to deal with the fallout.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 12, 2022 3:41 PM |
Sounds like they're portraying the whole situation as a crime, or a mass murder.
It was a few doctors and nurses, stuck in a hospital with dying patients and no way out, giving humane euthanasia to people who were already dying anyway. None of the healthcare workers was ever indicted for a crime.
Typical sensationalist bullshit. Ryan Murphy should stick to pretending 1940s Hollywood was full of proud feminists and cocksuckers.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 12, 2022 3:55 PM |
R15, I won't claim to be a close friend of her. My landlord was the medical Director of the office of public health (he left before the Hurricane, and I'd worked with him) and he knows her well. She was arrested but a grand jury wouldn't indict her so she was never tried or sentenced.
She's a good person IMO who was in a terrible situation that was not her fault and was questionably preventable. She was caring for patients who were dying and couldn't be evacuated. She treated them for pain and discomfort and I have no doubt in my mind that she didn't kill anyone intentionally. I think her colleagues that said she did were as culpable for patients that died because they couldn't be evacuated and were looking to scapegoat someone (her and the nurses) and did so to protect themselves. Or out of spite. Who knows.
And Sheri Fink is a bad person who got a Pulitzer for a hit piece on an innocent doctor. The way Anna describes the way she spoke to her are petty outrageous.
I hate that they made a movie out of this. I'm sure it's gonna pretend to be balanced, but it's going to leave people with doubts about whether she did it intentionally or it just happened. And it's one of those stores that can't be told objectively (it's dramatic! No question!) but it's just another hit on her and she doesn't deserve it.
Frankly, it pisses me off. I have great sympathy for the families of the patients that died, but it was a fucking disaster. They didn't die because their doctor killed them, but that's what they've been told.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | August 12, 2022 6:21 PM |
Thanks for sharing R17, but from the first three of five episodes, I'm getting a sense the series will take the side of Anna, Susan, and the RNs.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 12, 2022 8:21 PM |
That's good to hear r19, but it's based on Sheri Fink's book, so I expect it to take an ugly turn. Her NYT piece (which I read) was awfully one-sided and her book (which I won't read) is, I've heard, even worse.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | August 12, 2022 9:12 PM |
Oh, and I'll be curious to hear how they present the forensic evidence. The coroner declared at least four of 45 deaths homicides (so basically there are 41 deaths that COULDN'T be attributed to euthanasia) and then an independent forensic expert said "these bodies laid in 100 degree heat for 10 days before they were autopsied! You can't attribute their deaths to anything!"
I'm curious if they'll include him and his assessment or just pretend that that never happened.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 12, 2022 9:18 PM |
Whichever surgeon Laurie Metcalf went to they took decades off her face, she looks great.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 13, 2022 3:20 AM |
R20 You say that like Ryan Murphy cares about facts.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 13, 2022 3:27 AM |
Oh god, that heliport pad is going to collapse and take out a bunch of people isn’t it?
by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 13, 2022 5:03 AM |
I don’t understand why the other separate hospital administration are not doing anything to help themselves and why there would be no doctor on staff at all times?
by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 20, 2022 7:22 AM |
The self righteousness of the Black doctor seems more like a TV trope than an actual character.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 20, 2022 7:25 AM |
OP is your name Ralph?
by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 20, 2022 7:29 AM |
I must of have missed it, but why the hell does the Cherry Jones’ character have her mother at work? There was not enough character development for this large of cast and and I’m finding myself unsympathetic, not caring and actually hating people.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 20, 2022 7:40 AM |