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Dopesick (TV Miniseries)

Dopesick

2021

Danny Strong (Creator), Michael Cuesta ...

Michael Keaton, Peter Sarsgaard, Will Poulter, John Hoogenakker ...

7.7

6,939

TV Series. Drama 8 Episodes. The series takes viewers to the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from the boardrooms of Purdue Pharma, to a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA.

	Media	Author	Review
		Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"Unless you need the candy-coating of familiar actors and cinematic devices, there are many better ways to process the same information."
		Kristen Baldwin Entertainment Weekly	"Michael Keaton and Kaitlyn Dever will break your heart (...) Dopesick deftly corrals the vast addiction epidemic through intimate, deeply engrossing stories of human devastation."
		Alan Sepinwall Rolling Stone	"Individual episodes feel too long, and Dopesick as a whole seems to have no business lasting eight-plus hours (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"
		Sonia Saraiya Vanity Fair	"Dopesick would be better if the story did not jump around so much in time (...) But as the characters reveal their struggles, Dopesick gets better and better"
		Alex Maidy JoBlo	"Dopesick is not a feel-good show (...) Brutally honest and shocking in its depiction of addiction, Dopesick is going to reignite an important discussion about drugs"
		Allison Keene Paste Magazine	"Dopesick is certainly not a light watch (...) But while Dopesick’s message and education is vital and often compelling, it feels like it never quite hits the right pace."
		Brian Tallerico The Playlist	"'Dopesick' can get a little lost in its own history, throwing so many characters and revelations up against the screen that too few of them have time for nuance or depth."
		Kelly Lawler USA Today	"A devastating series that sometimes gets preachy and slow, "Dopesick" is a vivid, affecting portrait of an American tragedy that you can't look away from (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"A solid, increasingly effective and satisfyingly well-made drama."

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