Dopesick [Hulu]

what day does new episodes release ?

Enjoyed the latest episode on D+.

My main complaint with the show thus far though, is that the majority of scenes with the Sacklers have been a bit comically... evil. Like at the end they should start MWAHAHAHAH!-ing.

Obviously in real life they are definitely a bunch of thunderc*nts who cared about profits above all else and didn't care about the effects of the opioids etc. Absolutely. But for the show, if they are going to play the Sacklers off as being so evil, there's almost no point in showing that to us. Better to have more scenes or even more characters learning about decisions the Sacklers/Purdue have made. Scenes of Mountcastle or Meyer discussing the moves Purdue have pulled with their wife/husband, which also works to tell us more about their personal life.

We're not really learning anything about the Sacklers other than "want more money, drugs good, regulations bad", and because of that the few scenes of family in-fighting and Richie wanting to surpass his father's legacy etc, it just falls flat imo, regardless of how great a performance the actor playing Richie is giving.

Oh definitely, but I think if that's true, then for the show I'm not sure if we really need to see it, and I think the rest of the characters might be served better with more scenes to flesh out their characters where they're learning about or reacting to the decisions the Sacklers/Purdue have made.

We're not really learning anything valuable about those characters or their journeys for the amount of time spent with them.

It's a small quibble, I just don't know if the amount of time spent with the Sacklers is justified, and too many of their big meeting scenes just come across a little cartoony.

Yeah that's true too. More Meyer instead of the Sacklers could have helped her character, but also could have just been more of an annoyance. I nearly would have liked a journalist character/story or something who was following/tracking the Sacklers and the rules/regulations and have that as a side story instead of the Sacklers, but I guess if it wasn't really happening at the time you kinda can't just invent it for the show.

Does Kaitlyn Dever ever play roles where she's happy? This, Unbelievable, and even Justified she has a mostly unhappy life in them all. She's a good actress though.

caught up with it. That last episode was outstanding.

Finished this several weeks back, and then went on to watch the Louis Theroux BBC documentary Dark States, about the heroin town, where a lot of folk couldn't get Oxy any more and went on to hard drugs instead as it was cheaper.

Finished it and really enjoyed it, timeline got a bit confusing at times but the acting more than made up for it

I guess she just goes with the best material available to her, she is really talented.

Definitely

Thought this was very good, agree on the timelines being a bit tricky to follow. Perfect length also didn't overly do it. Must get around now to crime of the century doc.

a new york judge has thrown a spanner in the works, hopefully opening the door to really go after them