"Painkiller" Jesus Gave Me Water (TV Episode 2023) Poster

(TV Mini Series)

(2023)

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7/10
It's really rather chilling.
Sleepin_Dragon14 August 2023
Britt and Shannon continue plugging oxy at an alarming rate, but run into Edie Flowers Glen takes part in an advertising campaign for oxycontin, but then starts suffering withdrawal symptoms when he runs out of his medication.

You cannot help but feel a little sick watching it, largely because of what was behind oxycontin, it was never about health, it was always about money.

I thought this was a step up from the first episode, I rather enjoyed it. Definitely well made and well acted, Britt and Shannon are getting under my skin, so the actresses involved are doing their job well.

It was fascinating to learn that oxy was first tested in Puerto Rico, the withdrawals of it must have been harrowing. Those sequences here were really shocking.

How on Earth advertising is allowed on pharmaceutical products is absolutely beyond me, it's abhorrent.

7/10.
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8/10
Take a pill found under the stove
polite-4569225 March 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Take a pill found under the stove. If that is what it takes. Haha. Maybe Glen should have noticed that he might have been developing a problem.

Unknown to Glen, his stepson acted as a sneaky little dirt ball doing some thieving to impress some trashy "friends."

Glen's story is amusing (in a tragic way, obviously). And it is especially important due to the annoying character Edie ensuring she remains the most dislikable individual in the show.

On top of everything else, time was wasted to show Edie visiting her brother in prison. Which seemed irrelevant and out of place regarding the flow of the story. Even Edie's brother seems to dislike her.
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