12/25/2023 0 Comments Dope sick streaming![]() ![]() ![]() Michael Stuhlbarg as Oxy’s biggest champion Richard Sackler gives a performance that has since proved a bit harder to unpack. Attorney Rick Mountcastle are but a few others in the show’s very deep bench. The aforementioned Dever as a young miner increasingly aware she can’t stay in the only place she’s ever known, Will Poulter’s Oxy salesman Billy Cutler, and Peter Sarsgaard’s dogged man of faith U.S. His deep reservoirs of humanity and how Oxy uses his own caring against him make him a startingly figure of anguish in the series. Michael Keaton is as quiet and soulful as he’s ever been. If anything, it feels even more inescapable as, at least with the supernatural invaders, years of stories have given us a playbook to repel them.ĭopesick is good, but it’s so close to great that you can’t stop thinking about where it went wrong.ĭopesick can also boast some truly excellent performances. It not only brings new trouble to the places it touches, but exacerbates existing tensions and long simmer resentments. ![]() Oxy-Contin has a similar effect to Things’ devilish store owner or Mass’s “angel.” It’s an interloper that slowly, heartbreakingly, invades a community, corrupting everyone in its wake. Think of something like Needful Things or the recent Midnight Mass, and you might be close to the tone. So often, it feels less like a dramatization of recent history and more like a horror film. Dopesick needs to either give more time to these explorations of individual characters or cut them to the bone.įor all the complaints about length and pacing, the series has an undeniable quality to it. Instead, they too often feel like unnecessary interruptions, blind alleys to get lost in without payoff. That would’ve given the show time enough to pursue these often-intriguing subplots more organically. It is the rare limited series that likely would’ve benefitted from being, perhaps, a three-season affair. As a result, it’s not uncommon to lose yourself in a 12-minute digression on the courtship and subsequent dissolution of the marriage of DEA Agent Bridget Meyer (Rosario Dawson) and Paul Meyer (Raúl Esparza) before returning to the plot at hand. In their quest to make the characters of Dopesick three-dimensional, they often adorn them with so much backstory and subplot. However, the grinding pace does also owe itself to several of the decisions made by show writer/creator Danny Strong and writer Benjamin Rubin. Michael Keaton and Will Poulter break bread together. Doing right by this story could not yield a bright, brisk limited series. It’s yet another entirely avoidable self-inflicted wound on our national psyche prolonged by government inaction, corporate malfeasance, and our ongoing addiction to regionalism that allows us to “other” problems until they’re literally on our doorstep. ![]() The opioid crisis in America is a harrowing slow-motion car wreck of human misery that we remain very much mired in as we speak. Part of the problem is the subject matter. It’s also a grueling viewing experience that often feels much longer than its running time. It’s powerful, thoughtful, and important. This is the fundamental experience of Dopesick. This was followed immediately by a moment of being stunned by how early I was in the episode. Samuel Finnix ( Michael Keaton) and his physically and emotionally wounded patient Betsy Mallum ( Kaitlyn Dever). Early in watching Dopesick, I had a moment of marveling at an achingly humanistic scene between Dr. ![]()
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