While Dopesick was a far better story, Painkiller delves into just how Purdue Pharmaceuticals literally pushed dope to Americans. The Sackler family made billions while not truly paying th price for killing tens of thousands of people. Matthew Broderick was terrific, much better than anything I've ever seen him in.
I'm not sure how much of this story was factual but the Edie Flowers character played by Uzo Aduba was truly a very dislikeable, arrogant and condscending person. If there was actually a US Atty that she played, it's no wonder it took years to get people to help expose Purdue. In one scene a person she was asking to help her expose Purdue was pouring their heart out to her showing remorse and crying and her resonse was "I'm not your psychatrist". Truly a nasty person.
Purdue's plan was simple, sell, sell, sell. They paid for Doctor's trips to exotic locations and the pressure was to not just prescribe more, but to up the dose.
The series tells the story of how big business can kill us and the Govt will always look the other way.
I'm not sure how much of this story was factual but the Edie Flowers character played by Uzo Aduba was truly a very dislikeable, arrogant and condscending person. If there was actually a US Atty that she played, it's no wonder it took years to get people to help expose Purdue. In one scene a person she was asking to help her expose Purdue was pouring their heart out to her showing remorse and crying and her resonse was "I'm not your psychatrist". Truly a nasty person.
Purdue's plan was simple, sell, sell, sell. They paid for Doctor's trips to exotic locations and the pressure was to not just prescribe more, but to up the dose.
The series tells the story of how big business can kill us and the Govt will always look the other way.