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Positive:
8
Mixed:
17
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Critic Reviews
Aug 10, 2023
The GuardianAug 10, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Aduba comes to enraged life as she describes the sins of the Sackler family for the firm in the present day. Flowers in flashback – as she digs deeper with her investigations – is riveting; tough, disbelieving, straightalking and alternating between determination and despair as the scale of the deception, corruption, addictions, bereavements and misery become apparent.
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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 10, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Dopesick was brutal, infuriating, and intensely moving, and Painkiller never reaches the same level of humanity and pathos. But the performances are all strong: Aduba delivers cathartic anger and despair as Edie, and Kitsch is dependably empathetic as the everyman who falls victim to what is essentially heroin in a time-release coating.
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