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The opening true stories in each episode from family members lost in this terrible chapter of medical history is heartbreaking, but it is right down the toilet from there. My spouse and I could only stomach two episodes. The idea that one all-knowing person, who appears to be a low level government investigator, knows the whole story of the dispicable Sacklers is idiotic. The frequent appearance of Arthur Sackler's ghost is bizarre. I was a family physician for 40 years and never saw a single drug company rep that resembled the characters of Britt or Shannon.

How could Matthew Broderick lower himself to be in this farce? As others have said, if you want to see a somewhat legitimate story of the disgraceful Sacklers, and all the years of work it took to bring them to some semblance of justice, watch Dopesick.

This short about a father and son living in a tiny cabin anchored on the side of an immense and icy mountain-side cliff is totally absorbing. There is no spoken word but the music is great. Father and son eke out their existence by taking ice to the village far below by jumping off their porch and parachuting down, then they come back up using a rope system. Since I am somewhat acrophobic, parts were a little difficult for me to watch (the son sitting on a swing thousands of feet above the ground - oh my!) but the basic colored line drawings were so engaging and gorgeous that one could not finish the film.

At first the ending is somewhat open to interpretation. Watching it a second and third time I picked up the hints scattered along the way as to what was happening that I had not fully grasped on my first viewing. I so appreciate being able to watch it on The New Yorker Screening Room.