Painkiller is a highly anticipated upcoming Netflix crime-drama series based on Barry Meier’s novel “Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic” and Patrick Radden Keefe’s New Yorker article “The Family That Built an Empire of Pain.” The story of the series is written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, and it is directed by Peter Berg, an award-winning director.
Story and Plot of Painkiller
The plot of the series revolves around one of America’s most sinister pharmaceutical epidemics, the post-1996 opioid crisis. The show follows the story of Richard Sackler, the owner of Purdue Pharma, which manufactured OxyContin, a highly addictive painkiller.