Dopesick – Season 1 first published by Sight and Sound, Winter 2021-22 issue Synopsis: 1986-2005, America. Purdue Pharma introduces the opioid Oxycontin to the market, falsely claiming it is non-addictive, and using seductive persuasion and threats to push doctors, and clinics to prescribe it in ever larger doses to patients in pain. A DEA agent…
The Bay first appeared in Sight & Sound, March 2013 Review: There must be something in the water. Although the horror genre has imagined all manner of flora and fauna, typically in monstrous or mutated form, rising up the food chain in response to the hubris of humanity’s environmental incursions and irresponsible experiments, nonetheless our screens have…