'Dopesick,' Hulu's limited series about how Purdue Pharma got America hooked on OxyContin, could use a shot in the arm. Read Alan Sepinwall's review.
as two victims of the crisis — without a conspiracy board handy. As is usually the case, the fractured narrative creates more problems than it solves, making it harder to connect the dots from various Purdue tactics to the ways in which ordinary people are harmed by them.
The miniseries’ best scenes tend to involve Rick and Randy. They’re not especially dynamic characters, but in a way that helps the series along. Strong and his collaborators successfully use the pair to identify all the ways that Purdue managed to manipulate both federal regulators and the American medical establishment to put this intense, addictive drug into the medicine cabinets of people suffering from pain that was mild at worst.
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