Episode 447: In The Seats With Eric Durst, Matt Whelan and 'Five Days At Memorial'

The best trick a visual effects supervisor ever pulled was convincing audiences they were never there in the first place....On this episode we dive into one of the best pieces of television that we've seen in recent memory.  Currently available on the Apple TV+ streaming service; it's Five Days At Memorial.The miniseries adaptation of Sheri Fink's non-fiction book of the same name centers on the five days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the decisions medical staff had to make at Memorial Medical Center.This is such a gripping depiction of the hell that these people had to go through during Hurricane Katrina and one of the reasons it's so effective is that it all looks real.  No fake effects take us out of the genuine human drama these people went through and the VFX played a HUGE part in that.We had the pleasure of talking with the VFX Supervisors Eric Durst & Matt Whelan about their work on the show, the detail they went into to make sure that everything felt as naturalistic as possible and so very much more....