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If you haven't watched it, Dopesick on Disney+ is an amazing telling of the background here. Highly recommend.

The final season of Goliath [0] is very much inspired by the opioid crisis and deals with a lawyer suing the family. Hopefully real life lawsuits will be inspired by the outcomes in the series ;-) Another highly recommended series to watch.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_(TV_series)

From the legendary David Kelley, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Kelley

> amazing telling of the background

I'd also like to recommend HBO's 'The Crime of the Century' documentary. It's a two part docu and was directed by Alex Gibney (who won an Emmy and an Oscar). [1] Trailer is available [2]. It details the whole opioid crisis and the role of Purdue and Sacklers.

[1] https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/the-crime-of-the-century

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkU75sBdjdU

I could have sworn it was on Hulu - pretty dark material for Disney+

Looks like there are two shows with the same name? see https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9174558/

edit: actually looks like the same show is on both platforms

It’s not on Disney+, at least here in the US. Only on Hulu.

Might vary from region to region I guess. I’m in Europe and the following page indicates that it’s on Disney+ here currently https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/series/dopesick/vaEHfF8OZHU... but it might redirect for people in the US or say not available or something.

Also I don’t have Disney+ so I don’t know if the page applies to all of Europe even.

Edit: Yeah I tried to archive a copy of it and for archive.is it got redirected to the Disney+ home page so probably that’s what you will see too. Meanwhile, archive.org was able to capture it without being redirected. So whether the link will show info about the show or just redirect is probably region dependent. Those kinds of redirects are the most annoying btw. At least they ought to give a message like “this show is not available in your region”. Kind of surprised that archive.org didn’t get redirected actually – I had thought the servers archive.org used for capturing pages were in the US. And I thought archive.is were capturing from Europe.

Disney owns both and segments content, keeping Disney+ "kid friendly".

Disney+ has not just children's movies. Here in Germany it streams quite a bit of horror movies like The Hills Have Eyes and the Alien franchise.

I should have said, I'm in New Zealand.

Disney+ there is a kids section and the broader(not for kiddies) sections which has HBO, STAR world etc. Dopesick is in the [not for kiddies] section. This is in India, it maybe same in other regions.

Its great.

Went ahead and read the book by Beth Macy after I saw the show. I enjoyed the show more, I have to say.

Michael Keaton at his best.

Thank you for this.

Any other recommendations on Disney+ ,of the same caliber?

The show 'Calls' is one of the most innovative pieces of television I've seen in years.

Absolutely incredible show, couldn't agree more.

Edit - oh hi JD.

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