They’re the main reason to see Netflix’s based-on-a-true-story tale about a Florida startup surfing the opioid crisis.
a single mother, a part-time stripper, and a full-time hustler. She has to be, given that she’s stuck in Florida in the year of our lord 2011, trying to figure out the next step for her and her daughter, Phoebe. On the plus side, Liza has grit, determination and some serious powers of persuasion, which come in handy when she needs to, say, negotiate with a school principal about Phoebe’s punishment for almost burning down the building.
That gift of gab also comes in handy when she’s chatting up a guy lounging at the bar of the club where she dances. His name is Pete Brenner. Liza correctly sizes him up as a pharmaceutical rep. He drunkenly offers her a job. It’s at a cut-rate startup, selling a painkiller called Lonafin that works twice as fast asbut only has one-tenth the market penetration. Kind of a dead-end gig, really.
Because she’s desperate, however, Liza shows up at his office and calls his bluff. She wants the job. She, who’s added “thoughtful mama grizzly,” “can-do woman of action” and “person with slowly cracking moral compass who you still root for regardless” to her repertoire of character specialties, you know that she will convince this slippery Pete to give it to her.
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