Any eyeballs on this show, and/or Gibney’s, are important, because there are crimes detailed here which have never been punished.ĭr Samuel Finnix’s (Keaton) homespun practice and dirt-poor patients are the narrative base for four main threads. The fact that Keaton (who executive produces), Sarsgaard and Dawson are names usually associated with high-end and high-minded productions will help.
Attracted by its cast and pedigree, serious-minded viewers should tune in to this rare gritty original adult drama on Disney’s streaming network: the captive audience is there.
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With the first two instalments directed by Barry Levinson, Strong ( Empire) plants the show on solid ground by focusing on individual stories, all radiating out from Keaton’s family doctor in an Appalachian mining town.ĭopesick is not aiming for the sheer scale of The Crime Of The Century, but it’s easy enough to tell from its structure that there’s room for a second series should this one hit.
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If Strong’s show started by revealing the full extent of this deception of the American people, it would risk coming across as unbelievable. In fact, the three episodes of Dopesick shown for review have, by nature, peddled down the drama in order to eventually escalate it. The two should be viewed side-by-side in order to appreciate the size of the beast confronted by the real people now played by a stellar cast including Michael Keaton, Peter Sarsgaard and Rosario Dawson, when they tried stop the advance of Ox圜ontin and Purdue Pharma.Īny eyeballs on this show, and/or Gibney’s, are important, because there are crimes detailed here which have never been punished. That two-part film is based on investigative journalism by ‘The New York Times’: now award-winning showrunner Danny Strong turns to Beth Macy’s non-fiction book ‘Dopesick’ to turn this tragic chapter in modern American history into a limited drama series for Disney+. Alex Gibney’s four-hour 2021 documentary The Crime Of The Century on HBO is a nightmarish indictment of how human greed led to the half-million deaths that resulted from it. America’s opioid crisis is a horror show.
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