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Topics: Netflix, Film and TV, US News, History, Streaming, Rotten Tomatoes
Ellie Kemp
Topics: Netflix, Film and TV, US News, History, Streaming, Rotten Tomatoes
Netflix viewers are breaking down in tears over a 'gut-wrenching' new series.
The streamer's recent documentary on High School Catfish Kendra Licari is storming both the charts and headlines.
But it's overshadowed a Netflix original series that retells one of the most devastating natural disasters in US history.
Having premiered on August 27, the three-part TV series has earned a perfect 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes score from critics.
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Produced by Hollywood director Spike Lee, each episode is directed individually by Geeta Gandbhir, Samantha Knowles or Lee himself.
The show revisits the New Orleans residents whose lives were torn apart by Hurricane Katrina, two decades after the catastrophe.
Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, causing catastrophic flooding in the city after major levee failures.
The 17th Street, London Avenue, and Industrial canals all breached due to engineering flaws, flooding 80 percent of the city in 'the worst engineering catastrophe in US history.' Around 1,400 people died and over a million were displaced.
Beyond the natural disaster, the documentary exposes how systemic failures - like levee breakdowns, slow emergency response and institutional neglect - exacerbated Katrina’s devastating impact.
The series in question is called Katrina: Come Hell and High Water - and it's left viewers both angry and in tears.
Taking to the Netflix Bangers Facebook page, one person wrote: "Watching this Netflix documentary on Katrina has me in tears. The government [for real] failed them!" as a second added: "Cried several times."
A third weighed in: "It is utterly gut-wrenching," as a fourth admitted: "I got SO angry I had to stop watching!"
The discussion continued over on Reddit, where one viewer, describing the series as 'very informative and well done,' urged: "Everyone needs to watch this."
Though not everyone was a fan on Lee's third and final episode, as someone responded: "The vibe shift of the Spike Lee episode was a bit jarring... but it is worth watching just to hear from the people who went through it. Who are still going through it. I cried more times than I'd like to admit..."
A second offered a different perspective: "I liked the tonal shift of the third episode - it was about caring about the actual people rather than the disaster."
A third social media user weighed in: "Watching now and have broken down in tears several times and I’m not a TV/movie crier...I knew it was bad but this is just a catastrophic nightmare that never should have happened."
Katrina: Come Hell and High Water is streaming now on Netflix.