- Network: HBO
- Series Premiere Date: Apr 16, 2000
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 16 Ratings
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Positive: 14 out of 16
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Mixed: 0 out of 16
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Negative: 2 out of 16
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May 25, 2018One of the Best shows dealing with drug addiction, poverty and racism. Powerfully rendered. It could have used more rad. political explaination-thus 1 point off. Great acting and writing. A compelling drama.
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Jan 23, 2018A strong and touching story, told in an extraordinary way. You really need to see this.
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It is also stunning, compelling and thoroughly, empathetically human. [14 Apr 2000, p.11E]
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Assuming the perspectives of its characters, the series avoids cliches and condescension; the performances are remarkably free of the cheap mannerisms actors often resort to when playing addicts. But this insiders' view is still undermined by the tone of a cautionary tale. The fact that the series makes a plea to understand the characters' humanity, rather than a judgment about them, doesn't make it less didactic.
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A striking six-week miniseries delivering one of the rawest, truest, most provocative and involving dramas ever beamed to Americans. And one of the most important, defining a seedy, destructive junkie subculture in vivid, aching detail in the tradition of such theatrical films as "Panic in Needle Park," "Drugstore Cowboy" and "Trainspotting." [14 Apr 2000, p.F1]