Lisa Corwin

LOVE this series! I just finished season two and found it even more compelling than the first season. The story has lots of twists and turns. The characters are interesting and portrayed by a stellar cast. It’s shot in dark hues which adds a moody ambiance to the somber Rust Belt. I’ve read the series hasn’t done so well. Maybe lack of promotion has something to do with it. Though I was happy that Amazon Prime picked it up when Showtime cancelled it, I never saw the show listed in what’s new to watch and had to search for it. This season ends with a cliffhanger , leaving room for a possible season three. I sure hope to see more. Jeff Daniel’s and Maura Tierney are at their best!

Two gals looking for adventure wind up in nowheresville Australia working in a pub I wouldn’t spend two seconds in. Nothing interesting or redeeming going on here to withstand witnessing ignorant immature men scaring the living daylights out of them while verbally and physically abusing them. We’ve seen the scenario before. The acting is decent but not even Julia Garner can make a dull script impactful. Gratuitous violence dressed down as a thriller.

Campy and pretentious portrait of a devastating epidemic. One cannot help but compare this series to DOPESICK, which aired a few years back, and told the story of the evil Sackler family with emotional depth and gravitas. Glossy, slick, almost absurd direction, distracts the viewer from the real impact OxyContin had on its thousands of users and their families. Alternating between cartoonish and grossly graphic, I am confounded by the choice to show explicit, bloody, surgical procedures. Shock value seems misplaced in a story that in and of itself is truly menacing. It was painful to watch, and not in the way that fills you with grief and anger.