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Series Details & Credits
| Netflix | Release Date: August 10, 2023 |
Summary:
The limited series about the OxyContin and its role in the opioid crisis in America is based on Barry Meier's book of the same name and the New Yorker Magazine article by Patrick Radden Keefe.
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
Recent Episodes
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S1:E8. Episode 8
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E7. Episode 7
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E6. What's in a Name?
Air Date: August 10, 2023
Positive:
8
Mixed:
17
Negative:
4
Aug 10, 2023
Aug 10, 2023
Aug 10, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The weakest overall link in the series is the Sackler family material, which never quite comes into focus. This was also the case in Dopesick. Perhaps it’s just difficult to fathom and effectively dramatize such bland, blinkered greed. But Painkiller is still mighty potent, another kaleidoscopic call to awareness of a massive public health crisis and the family most responsible for causing it.
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Aug 17, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Glib, garish, and ham-fisted. .... Each episode of Painkiller opens with a real person explaining that, while the events in the show have been fictionalized, opioids’ effects on their own lives have been genuinely tragic. They hold up photos of their dead children. Some of them cry. This only manages to make the rest of the show seem even more grotesque.
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: August 10, 2023
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S1:E8. Episode 8
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E7. Episode 7
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E6. What's in a Name?
Air Date: August 10, 2023
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S1:E5. Hot! Hot! Hot!
Air Date: August 10, 2023
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S1:E4. Is Believed
Air Date: August 10, 2023
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S1:E3. Blizzard of the Century
Air Date: August 10, 2023
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S1:E2. Jesus Gave Me Water
Air Date: August 10, 2023
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S1:E1. The One to Start With, The One to Stay With
Air Date: August 10, 2023
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Season 1 Overview