'Painkiller suffers from many of the problems inherent to a genre that’s becoming increasingly popular in Hollywood: the explainer drama' TIME reviews Netflix's latest:
, though it derives some of that momentum from a quick-cutting aesthetic that creates the exhausting impression that the camera itself is having periodic panic attacks. Aduba wisely plays Edie as Richard’s rightful nemesis, another odd duck of a very different feather. The scene where the two finally meet is exhilaratingly awkward.
But confusion is inevitable with a story that is constantly hopping from one place and time to another. There’s some tension between the show’s barrage of factual exposition—about the FDA, Purdue’s marketing campaigns, decades’ worth of legal battles over OxyContin, etc.—and its reliance on so many composite characters.
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