Dopesick: Season 1

"Too often, the good parts of the Dopesick ensemble get caught up in the intercutting with the generic parts, or drowned in the cliches of their ill-fated situations."

"The approach here somehow leaves the tale feeling both too sprawling to be contained within only eight hours and too self-explanatory to require such a heavy course of treatment."

"When the series breaks your heart, it really shatters it."

"Hulu's valiant endeavor just keeps hammering home a point it made straight from the jump."

"When it does choose substance over gimmicky style, you won't be able to look away."

"A (mostly) sober, compelling and clear dramatisation of one of the most shameful examples of big pharma wrongdoing in recent history, which will have you recoiling in fury."

"The show is uneven and at times almost too harrowing to watch, but in its best moments it conveys the pain and the havoc wrought by corporate recklessness and greed."

"The more familiar you already are with the Sackler story and the opioid crisis, the more you will get out of it, which is not the dramatic ideal."

"What Dopesick does very well... is chart how opioid abuse boomed."

"Given the size of its canvas, Dopesick is a remarkable achievement..."

"Attracted by its cast and pedigree, serious-minded viewers should tune in to this rare gritty original adult drama on Disney's streaming network..."