


In a stunt designed to promote the terrifically reimagined version of the nostalgic sitcom, now featuring a Black family in Alabama in the 1960s, cast members of the original series (1988-93) appear throughout the rest of ABC’s Wednesday comedy lineup. Three episodes launch the series, with the remainder dropping weekly. Samuel Finnix (the tremendous Michael Keaton) of the dangers of the drug on his hard-working patients, including a heartbreaking Kaitlyn Dever and the efforts of a DEA agent ( Rosario Dawson) and federal prosecutors ( Peter Sarsgaard and John Hoogenakker) to get the bottom of this scheme built on fake pseudo-science. The series jumps around time, following several story threads: the machinations of the wealthy Sackler family (led by Michael Stuhlbarg as Richard Sackler) to maximize their profits the slow-dawning understanding of Virginia mining-town Dr.

You might need to check your blood pressure as you watch this powerfully impassioned and maddening eight-part docudrama, written by Danny Strong ( Recount) and directed by Barry Levinson ( Rain Man), about how the opioid crisis was fueled in the 1990s by the arrival of Ox圜ontin, a “miracle” pain drug aggressively and falsely marketed as non-addictive.
