“Painkiller” is a drama limited series that is streaming on Netflix and focuses on the opiod crisis.
So let’s find out some trivia and facts.
- Painkiller is an American drama limited series
- It is made for Netflix
- The series was created by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster
- It is a six-episode series
- The series is based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s New Yorker article “The Family That Built an Empire of Pain” and Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic by Barry Meier
- It focuses on the birth of the opioid crisis with an emphasis on Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin
- Painkiller premiered on Netflix on August 10, 2023
- Production began in Toronto in April 2021
- It wrapped in November 2021
- The series was directed by Peter Berg
- On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the series holds a 44% rating
- Baseed on 36 critics
- With an average rating of 6.1/10
- The website’s critics consensus reads, “Painkiller honors the victims of the opioid crisis with effective dramatic beats but is undermined by its stale satirical flourishes, resulting in a tonally confused bit of muckraking”
- On Metacritic, the series holds a weighted average score of 59 out of 100
- Based on 26 critics
- Indicating “mixed or average reviews”
- The series draws a lot of parallels with the “Dopesick”
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