Spike Lee is no stranger to documentaries about Hurricane Katrina and the devastation it brought to New Orleans, as he previously made two of the best: When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Parts and If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise. The acclaimed director and documentarian has seemingly completed his trilogy with his part in making Katrina: Come Hell and High Water, a three-part 2025 Netflix original docuseries about the storm, the flood, and its aftermath. Critics have watched the series, which is now streaming with a Netflix subscription, and seem to be saying the same thing about the new TV series.
The first two episodes directed by Geeta Gandbhir (“We Gonna Ride it Out Like We Always Do”) and Samantha Knowles (“Shelter of Last Resort”), respectively, help create a “stirring tribute,” as the Guardian’s Jack Seale writes, but it’s Lee’s “God Takes Care of Fools and Babies,” which features interviews with the likes of NOLA native Wendell Pierce, where the doc becomes a “rich oral history”:
