Painkiller is an American drama series, that was created by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, it was filmed for Netflix.
The six-episode television series, which is based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s New Yorker article “The Family That Built an Empire of Pain” and Barry Meier’s Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic, focuses on the beginning of the opioid crisis with a focus on Purdue Pharma, a business owned by Richard Sackler and his family that produced OxyContin, and also the Sackler family has been called the “most evil family in America” and “the worst drug dealers in history.”
36 reviewers gave the series an average score of 6.1/10 on the review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes, with 44% of them giving it a favourable review.
According to the majority of the website’s commentators, “Painkiller honours 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.”
Based on 26 reviews, the series has a weighted average score of 59 out of 100 on Metacritic, which indicates “mixed or average reviews.” According to Cameron English’s article for the American Council on Science and Health, the series wrongly blames Purdue and the Sackler family for the opioid crisis.
Who played Shannon Schaeffer in Painkiller?
West Duchovny, played Shannon Schaeffer in Painkiller. She is an American actress, who is known for the films A Mouthful of Air, The Magicians on SyFy, and Painkiller on Netflix.
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