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Critic Reviews
Oct 6, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Dopesick (premiering October 13) deftly corrals the vast addiction epidemic through intimate, deeply engrossing stories of human devastation. Keaton is phenomenally poignant as Dr. Finnix. ... Dever adds another remarkable performance to her growing résumé as Betsy, whose descent into desperate addiction is almost too painful to watch.
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RogerEbert.comOct 13, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It's a large credit to the show's writing, and its excellent performances, that "Dopesick" breaks away from its initial “and then this happened” type of plotting. These characters may have a part to play in the mechanics of this story, but they have more dimension than simply symbols, especially as the plotting (hour-long episodes) gives space for the story to be about everyone’s psychological pains and problems
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Oct 14, 2021
Oct 13, 2021
Season 1 Review:
It verges at times on hokey melodrama. ... So, yes, I’m disappointed. But I'm recommending Dopesick anyway, because quite honestly I don’t think the show was designed for a viewer like me. ... Hulu has apparently decided that this adaptation of a nonfiction book should resemble a very long movie-of-the-week — but you know, a lot of people like to watch those.
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The GuardianNov 12, 2021
Oct 12, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The story lines Strong and his fellow writers give their Appalachian everypeople are a mixed bag, sometimes skating along on addiction and recovery boiler plate that’s interchangeable with a thousand other dramas. But they’re generally watchable because of the bone-deep credibility of Dever’s and Keaton’s performances.
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The Daily BeastOct 12, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Dopesick struggles to feel like a persuasive narrative because its cop characters all feel as if they have to justify the chase. ... [Kaitlyn Dever’s] scenes, along with those of Stuhlbarg’s merciless Sackler, do showcase the show’s potential electricity, but the false narratives and overwrought justifications of the cop story at its center renders Dopesick a bit bland.
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Oct 6, 2021
Season 1 Review:
In isolated moments, the miniseries functions exactly as prescribed, offering a devastating portrait of how Purdue helped turn us into, as DEA agent Bridget Meyer (Rosario Dawson) puts it, “a pill-popping zombie nation.” More often, though, the drama’s emotional impact fades too quickly, and chief writer and producer Danny Strong (Empire) attempts to compensate by doubling the dosage.
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Oct 14, 2021
Season 1 Review:
None of the characters' tales feel fully realized, or even complete, at the end of the seven episodes made available for review. Since Strong's script leans heavily on humanizing the toll this emergency is taking on every aspect of American life — save for the people profiting off it — that lack of substance ultimately defeats the story.
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Oct 6, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Despite powerful performances from Michael Keaton and several of his top-tier co-stars, Dopesick is a frustrating selection of questionable narrative choices and bizarrely bad performances from typically unimpeachable actors. It’s a muddled telling of an urgent story.
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