[ad_1] Painkiller Hot Hot Hot / What’s in a Name? Season 1 Episodes 5 and 6 Editor’s Rating 4 stars **** Photo: Netflix/KERI ANDERSON/NETFLIX Legacy is all that matters to Arthur Sackler. It’s so important to him and so embedded in Richard’s psyche that we get a whole flashback scene to one Christmas in the… Continue reading ‘Painkiller’ Recap, Episodes 5 and 6
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‘Painkiller’ Recap, Episodes 3 and 4
[ad_1] Painkiller Blizzard of the Century / Is Believed Season 1 Episodes 3 and 4 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Photo: Netflix/KERI ANDERSON/NETFLIX You know how single-ply yarn can be made stronger by spinning multiple strands of fiber together into a three- or four-ply yarn? That’s what the middle two episodes of Painkiller are doing with their… Continue reading ‘Painkiller’ Recap, Episodes 3 and 4
‘Painkiller’ Wants This to Hurt
[ad_1] Painkiller chooses to document what the Sacklers and their allies knowingly did rather than why they did it, because not every villain needs an origin story. Photo: KERI ANDERSON/NETFLIX/KERI ANDERSON/NETFLIX In the contemptuous, engrossing, and consistently upsetting Painkiller, America’s health-care system has blood on its hands, and everyone involved is complicit. Avarice and ego… Continue reading ‘Painkiller’ Wants This to Hurt
‘Painkiller’ Recap, Episodes 1 and 2
[ad_1] Painkiller The One To Start With, The One To Stay With / Jesus Gave Me Water Season 1 Episodes 1 and 2 Editor’s Rating 3 stars *** Photo: Netflix/KERI ANDERSON/NETFLIX Over the last few years, we have had a bumper crop of shows about When Medicine Goes Bad, a subcategory of white-collar true crime. The… Continue reading ‘Painkiller’ Recap, Episodes 1 and 2