How to Fix a Drug Scandal

It's a much maligned group by many Americans, but I cannot imagine somebody watching this documentary series and not at the very least judging Luke Ryan as a hero.

This is a well made and detailed investigation into how crime labs utterly failed in their duty, aided by prosectutors and then a coverup was attempted which included judges and even the attourney generals office. How anybody has any faith at all in American justice, purely on this and many other Netflix documentaries evidence is beyond me.

This should have been a documentary film instead of a four episode mini series. The episodes are filled with so many repeated flashbacks and images that if you would leave them out it could be two episodes shorter. Because of that it doesn't have a nice flow and I feel like they could have easily told the story in 90 minutes.

I also am not a fan of the reconstructions with actors, but that's just a personal thing. Seeing ''Farak'' on the stand telling her story and in the lab working made the whole thing feel like the story itself wasn't interesting enough to make the documentary.

This is something that is never highlighted amd talked about. We watched the whole thing last night and found it intresting and well done. I think things like this go on all of the time and we don't know about it. They look at,each person as a whole person and how messed the system us and how minorities get slammed with sentencing for which they may not deserve and a white chemist get only 18 mo for way worse.

I watched this all in one sitting and enjoyed it thoroughly. This is NOT a politically charged documentary. It is fair and balanced and paints a balanced picture of the many parties involved. The movie is not strongly advocating for criminal justice reform, it is simply advocating for justice and truth. It also touches on addiction and you can see how it affects different populations in different ways. The chemists are sentenced less than some of the thousands of people they helped put behind bars. They documentary fails to explore how drug use impacts because across socioeconomic lines. They could have delved even deeper into the context of the war on drugs and the effects it has had overwhelming the criminal justice system. I personally think it could have been longer to provide more of this context. I could have watched even more on the two fraudulent chemists as well. Very interesting if you enjoy learning about the criminal justice system, fraud, or drugs.