Taylor Kitsch also stars in a Peter Berg-directed show about the launch of OxyContin and the subsequent epidemic of addiction.
Creators:, created by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harper, presumably intends for all that flash to draw attention to its weighty central narrative about the launch of OxyContin and the
ensuing opioid epidemic. But it overshoots that mark. The style is so ostentatious it distracts from the substance, even as it means to hammer home how important that substance really is.
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