Netflix's Painkiller tracks the opioid crisis from its greed-driven origins in an entertaining and enlightening six episodes; shaneryanhere reviews:
worked beautifully because Adam McKay focused his story on the great undoing, and mined most of the drama in collapse. Resisting a certain amount of glorification is paramount to the “service” inherent in productions like these; if you want to make a point about society and reach enough people to have an impact, the main lesson can’t be that getting rich off other people’s pain actually looks pretty fun.largely manages to avoid that pitfall.
The show’s framework is built around a series of people that are, at first, only loosely connected. Uzo Aduba is Edie, an investigator with the U.S. Attorney’s office who stumbles on oxycontin by accident, Taylor Kitsch is a mechanic who suffers a serious injury at work that requires pain management, and Robert Downey Jr. is Richard Sackler, the nephew of the late Arthur Sackler whose ghost still serves as his sounding board and cheerleader at critical moments.
The greatest achievement here is the balance of the three goals; this is a brisk, fun watch, which sounds strange considering the subject matter, but the crucial entertainment factor is present in spades.
All of which is to say, they came close to nailing it. If there’s one complaint to be made here, it’s that the constant shift in perspective somewhat prevents us from going too deep on any character, and in some cases, the characterization veers into near caricature, as with the two main Sackler protagonists.
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