For those who like to watch American TV series, if you’re going to suffer from a panic recently? Don’t worry if because there is a new American drama “Dopesick” on Hulu. The first episode of this American drama, which started on October 13th, won high scores within days.
“Dopesick” tells the story of a drug proliferation and addiction crisis incident, and how the protagonist in the play, a conscientious doctor, discovered a major secret of the pharmaceutical company. The plot takes the audience to continue to explore the darkness and profit behind the incident. From an in-depth perspective to interpret the occurrence of this harmful drug crisis.
The play is a remake of a 2018 documentary by author Beth Macy-“Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors and the Drug Company that Addicted America”, and this book tells about the devastating opioids in American history. The Opioid Epidemic, the extremely popular and best-selling painkiller OxyContin in the United States has become the source of evil that caused thousands of people to become drug addicts under various operations and caused this disaster.
The remake of this book from Beth Macy also describes on a larger scale how drug companies do not hesitate to promote addictive drugs, falsely report drug addiction risks and other methods to achieve commercial benefits. It is chilling and creepy to see.
Although there are prototype events for reference, some of the characters in the play are still fictitious. In addition, the realistic plot of “Dopesick” and the dark description method have also won a lot of praise.
The plot of this drama is very compact at the moment, or it may be due to the relationship of the mini-series. There are only 8 episodes in total. If you want to explain the whole story in just 8 episodes, the audience will inevitably feel nervous. At the same time, it is more enjoyable.
