Apple TV+’s New Series Was Almost on American Crime Story

The series tells the true story of Dr. Pou, who injected 23 patients, all of whom she assumed would die, with lethal amounts of morphine while New Orleans’ Memorial Medical Hospital remained without power following the hurricane.

Pou and two ICU nurses were later charged with second-degree murder. The charges against both ICU nurses were eventually dropped, and a grand jury chose not to indict Pou in 2007.

In the trailer, Farmiga says, “There is nothing else to do for them, except to make them comfortable.”

Five Days at Memorial premieres August 12 on Apple TV+.