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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Phil Harrison

From Katrina: Come Hell and High Water to KPopped: the seven best shows to stream this week

New Orleans has still not recovered from Hurricane Katrina.
Legacy … 20 years on and the effects of Hurricane Katrina writ large over New Orleans. Photograph: Netflix

Pick of the week
Katrina: Come Hell and High Water

Spike Lee executive produces a part elegy, part polemic commemoration of one of 2025’s saddest anniversaries: two decades have now passed since the brutal Hurricane Katrina laid waste to both the physical reality and also, somehow, the soul of New Orleans. The first part of this tragedy may have been unavoidable, given the force of the storm; the second element certainly wasn’t. Via some beautiful footage of pre-Katrina New Orleans at Mardi Gras time, this documentary series remembers the city as it once was. It also doesn’t hesitate to call out the trail of mendacity, negligence and incompetence that made the disaster – and its aftermath – so much worse than it needed to be.
Netflix, from Wednesday 27 August

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