Dopesick - series on Hulu or Netflix or Bittorrent or whatever

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

Alright, I finally got around to watching it. About halfway through right now. Anyone else see it and want to discuss?

I find the lesbian character far less sympathetic than I am clearly meant to. Doesn't help how transparent the Diversity Pandering is.

But it's interesting and informative despite some very heavy handed hokey moments and is good to Start Conversations.

 

[frozenrunner]

I thought this was a documentary, not a drama based on the evil shit going on in Perdue. That's kind of disappointing.

Georg Rockall-Schmidt did a three part, extensive summary on his YouTube channel of the book this series is based on. Not sure I need a POZ'd dramatic version.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

I thought this was a documentary, not a drama based on the evil shit going on in Perdue. That's kind of disappointing.

Georg Rockall-Schmidt did a three part, extensive summary on his YouTube channel of the book this series is based on. Not sure I need a POZ'd dramatic version.

Yeah they have a mixture of "actors portraying real people" and "actors portraying fictional composite people" which made it a little odd. A couple times something really outrageous happened and I had to google to see ok, was this a real twist from real life, or dramatic license? FWIW it turned out to be real each time which is kind of illustrative of how crazy the whole Purdue saga really is.

Finished it last night. There were some really predictable emotional plot bits that annoyed me, and the whole irrelevant aside about Rosario Dawson's failed relationship wtf. But, it was worth watching if you like cop shows and being based closely on a true story made it interesting. As with most modern media I wouldn't have paid to see it, but watching it for free was alright.