'Five Days at Memorial's Robert Pine Talks Modern "Parallels" of Apple TV+ Series
When the new Apple TV+ series Five Days at Memorial makes its anticipated premiere this Friday with a three-episode drop, audiences will no doubt feel the pinch of our pandemic reality through the lens of Hurricane Katrina. Seventeen years ago this August, the Category 5 Atlantic hurricane, which hit the city of New Orleans and its surrounding areas, was marked as one of the largest, most destructive storms to hit the contiguous United States. Chronicling the impact of Katrina on one local hospital that endured several horrifying events, including the alleged euthanasia of several patients by one doctor and two nurses, delivers evident "parallels" that Five Days at Memorial star and legendary actor Robert Pine admits will resonate with audiences today.
Through his portrayal of the real-life Dr. Horace Baltz, an internist and one of Memorial Hospital's longest-serving doctors, Pine shares that understanding human nature through his experience and relating it to modern times will be an interesting journey for the audience. "Life is made up of choices. We all have to make choices and we've seen in COVID what these doctors have to deal with very up close and personal," Pine told PopCulture. "Say you have three respirators and eight people need them — how do you make that choice? And to watch people die and without their family there, so there are great parallels about this, and I hope people take away that these caregivers, we've seen up close and personal in COVID how this happens."
