Dopesick
- DB
- 1 day ago
- 3 min read
A very good series about a horrible series of events.
MOVIES
I'm sure I heard that Danny Boyle stated he never wanted to work on a science-fiction film again after the experience of making this movie, which is a shame as it's fucking brilliant.
We're only 2 years away from it turning 20 too - would love to see it get a big-screen re-release as I'm sure that cast would get a lot more attention now!
Can you spot the musical link between this and Sunshine? As in Sunshine's main theme, which is one of the best in modern movie history, was used in the trailers for Days of Future Past!
Doesn't really have anything to do with the movie itself, which is the best X-Men movie made so far and part of the reason why I feel the Sentinels should always be considered the scariest of all the threats the mutants face.
GAMES
Working my way through Day 3 and still loving it - this is at least my fourth time through the game and I'm still discovering not just new lines, but entirely new conversations and ways to progress.
An absolute masterpiece of a game.
I've side-stepped the 'Truck' part of the title by modding the game so I can drive a nice Mercedes around Europe to visit the locations I haven't been able to deliver anything to so far.
I did have to turn off the police though - it got very annoying very quickly that I was being fined almost every time I went more than a few MPH over the speed limit while other cars were bombing along at 80MPH without a problem.
TV
Dopesick
Series summary: The series takes viewers to the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from the boardrooms of Purdue Pharma, to a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA. (IMDb)
I didn't exactly 'enjoy' Dopesick, because that feels like the wrong word to use for a series about the opioid crisis in America that killed over half a million people, but I certainly appreciated the efforts of everyone involved in the making of this.
Saying that, I do think the series undermined itself a little with how it jumped about in time, making it more difficult than necessary to follow what was unfolding in each narrative thread.
It's a shame because each of the stories by themselves were almost all really well done, but didn't quite have the impact they could've done thanks to the constant jumping between time frames.
I think there may have been a slight overreach by the creators of the show as it does feel like they were trying to cram in a little more than they had room for.
The worst example of that was a character being prescribed the addictive OxyContin that caused the crisis and jumping to them being strongly addicted to it - a contrast to another main character whose slow descent into addiction felt far more believable.
Despite those issues, Dopesick is otherwise really well-made and brilliantly acted, with Michael Keaton giving possibly a career-best performance as Doctor Sam Finnix.
I've seen some people say that the Sackler family, who were behind the company that made and pushed the drug that killed so many, were almost cartoonishly evil - I can what they're saying, but both reality and they show point out that they really were that evil, almost to a comicbook supervillain level.
And, much like The Big Short, it's utterly depressing that they basically got away with it too, as the show made me look up what happened and, while their reputations were hit, they're still living a life of luxury with billions in the bank.
Regardless of the bad guys getting away and the structural issues, I would thoroughly recommend Dopesick not just to follow what happens with the drug itself, but how it can completely warp the lives of people who never take the damn thing in the first place. [8/10]
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