Dopesick review, Culture Whisper
Even in a doomed age when evil opaquely steams over the world, it's still shocking the extent to which the morally heinous navigate. Evocatively captured in Danny Strong's fierce new drama Dopesick, the history of big pharma company Purdue and their elite family owners, the Sacklers, is one of such widespread deceit. It’s hard to process the entire sordid scale of human suffering they’ve caused with their 'blockbuster drug', OxyContin.
Perhaps that’s why the series needs eight episodes: to catch every nuance of Purdue's strategies and their contribution to America’s opioid crisis. Considering recent and decent political dramas like The Report and Dark Waters, which pack so much in only two hours, this televisual format is a more digestible pill to swallow.
