Dopesick starts on Hulu today - here's keeneTV's review of how the series chronicles America's opioid epidemic in no uncertain terms:
, so the tension of seeing Finnix—a good man who deeply cares about his patients—be taken in by the lies about the drug’s safety is agonizing.’s message and education is vital and often compelling, it feels like it never quite hits the right pace. The limited series format, unfortunately, does little to mitigate the feeling of watching your TV vegetables.
Still, there are notable standouts from each wing of the show’s sprawling narrative. Keaton is incredible as Finnix, a man haunted by the drugs he dispensed that destroyed a community. An increasingly beleaguered Kaitlyn Dever shines as Betsy Mallum, a young miner battling addiction and a lack of acceptance by her family.
Others are left cold by the scripting. Will Poulter’s pharma sales rep waffles for too long without taking a stand, and is in a draining and completely uninteresting romantic entanglement with a greedy coworker. On the flip side, Rosario Dawson as a DEA agent on the rise gets stuck with a lot of grandstanding and tropey moments for her crusading heroine .
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