I was in New Orleans for the premiere of Katrina: Come Hell and High Water, and it’s hard to put into words what it felt like to be in that room. Filmmakers, Netflix executives, the people whose faces and voices fill the series and fellow Katrina survivors sat together—laughing, crying and holding space for twenty years of pain, resilience, and history that finally felt fully seen.

This is not another Katrina documentary recycling the same newsreel footage we’ve been shown for decades. It’s raw, deeply personal storytelling built on firsthand accounts and archival material that has never been shared. Episode 1 opens as a love letter to New Orleans, grounding us in its beauty, culture and soul before confronting the devastation and political failure that followed. It’s both tender and unfl

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