Katrina: Depois da Tempestade

This is a mostly well-made and well-paced documentary that powerfully details the devastating and moving stories of what happened during Hurricane Katrina.

The first two episodes are excellent, but the third feels like a letdown-shifting focus to hype a climate agenda and overshadowing the other important points that key voices are trying to make.

And Brad Pitt... fix the shoddy homes you built for people.

I think this series is worth watching but as a whole it comes off very disjointed. The first two episodes feel like they came from a different series altogether from the third.

The first two episodes are telling the historical story of hurricane Katrina and the failures afterwards. The points made by the third episode revolve around the systemic cultural failures that occurred during the rebuilding process are very valid. But it comes off as almost a PowerPoint presentation in parts. The editing style and approach are very different from the other two episodes. It comes across as a series a jumbled narrative of interviews that kind of tell a story, but one that could have been handled better stylistically. Also felt like the dead of Katrina get left behind in the series. The identification and stories of them get ignored for the most part.

Like others have said, episodes 1&2 are the actual documentary. Episode 3 feels like they handed it off to a new director, and he said "I'm just redoing this my way". We followed people's stories through episodes 1&2 only to never hear about them again. We never checked back in on the people at the hospital, for example.

I was really wanting some actual explanations on what happened, and we didn't get that. "Here's how the levees broke" or "here's how they weren't built right". Both of which were addressed by Hulu's

I don't disagree with the arguments made by the series, but it's evident what the angle of the show was from episode 1. For me, that lowers its value as an actual documentary. I like being presented with the evidence and what happened and being left to make my own decisions.

Watching the Hulu documentary right after Netflix's is jarring. It really makes it feel like Netflix left out the stories of many people, such as first responders. For example the Chief of Police. His story is extremely impactful to the events overall, and is never even mentioned on the Netflix show....

While good and informative for E1 & 2, E3 dragged. I learned more from watching the National Geographic doc, "Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time." Some crossover with interviews of same people. Still, being a fan of NOLA and visited many times, I learned a lot. I found it especially interesting about the "recovery" of the area. And Commander Honore' is my new favorite person. He was a bad@$$.

1 & 2 are very effective documentaries - presenting facts and telling stories of real people and their struggles during a natural tragedy. Spike Lee completely destroys this by turning to opinion, discussion and theory.

Why would he not look at the work of the other creators and produce something that is coherent with the rest of the series??

He is clearly a narcissist - I say this as the other documentaries leave it to the people who suffered this tragedy to recount their journeys of survival. This final documentary ha Spike regularly interjecting, trying to show that he is 'part of it' or some such. The guy is insufferable and I hope that he is never allowed near important and factual film making ever again.