“Inspired By The True Story Of How America Got Hooked On A Lie”

– Dopesick

ADDICTED TO THE LIE…

Dopesick is an American biographical drama limited series that was created by Danny Strong for Hulu. The ten-episode miniseries is based on the non-fiction book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy. The limited series premiered on October 13, 2021, with the first three episodes, and concluded on November 17, 2021, with the eighth episode.

The limited series Hulu Original was well received by critics with mostly favorable reviews, in particular to the cast and their performances, most notably of those were Kaitlyn Dever and Michael Keaton. At the 74^th Primetime Emmy Awards, the miniseries received fourteen nominations, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, and acting nominations were earned for Keaton, Dever, Will Poulter, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Mare Winningham, with Michael Keaton winning the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Anthology Series or Movie. In addition to his Primetime Emmy win, Keaton also won Lead Actor at the 79^th Golden Globe Awards, 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards, and 20^th Critics’ Choice Television Awards.

Dopesick centers around “the epicenter of America’s struggle with opioid addiction” across the United States, it focuses on how individuals and families are affected by it, the miniseries also looks at the alleged conflicts of interest involving Purdue Pharma and various government agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), and all of this takes place on the backdrop of the legal case against Purdue Pharma and their development, testing, and marketing of the drug OxyContin.

The characters in the limited series are fictional and composite characters, except for Rick Mountcastle, Randy Ramseyer, and the members of the Sackler family, who are the only main characters based on real people.

Dopesick is the Featured Television Blog for the month of December, therefore I will provide a Critique of the Sackler family and the Purdue Pharma legal case and their development, testing, and marketing of OxyContin, there will also be a Recommendation for the non-fiction book the miniseries was adapted from, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy published August 7, 2018, then you will also be able to read a Review for the limited series, Dopesick, as well as an Interview with Michael Keaton and Collider on Dopesick and why this was an important story to tell, and finally as with all my other Featured Blogs on this site, I commemorate them with a Top Ten List from the genre of the featured film or television series, for Dopesick I have compiled my Top Ten Favorite TV Medical Dramas. But before we get to all of that, as usual, I first provide you with the Official Trailer for the Featured Blog being discussed on Movies to History and then hope you decide to watch Dopesick tonight!

You can watch the Official Trailer for Dopesick below: