The Pharmacist

Name: The Pharmacist
Genre: Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary
Released: February 5, 2020
Rating: 73

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Netflix | Release Date: February 5, 2020

Summary: Pharmacist Dan Schneider's search for who killed his 22-year-old son leads him to embark into another investigation into legal drug-dealing of opioid prescriptions by doctors in this four-part documentary series from Julia Willoughby Nason and Jenner Furst.

Genre(s): Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary

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S1:E4. Tunnel of Hope
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S1:E3. Dope Dealers with White Lab Coats
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S1:E2. A Mission from God
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The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Feb 7, 2020

Season 1 Review: Guided by countless video and audio recordings that Schneider made during this period—capturing conversations he had on the phone, and in person, with just about everyone in his orbit—The Pharmacist details the man’s mission with amazing immediacy. Read full review

The Guardian Jack Seale

Feb 7, 2020

Season 1 Review: The Pharmacist raises an impeccably important global issue, but its power as television all comes from one individual. Schneider, always dogged by sadness (the programme never forgets young Danny’s loss) but resolute in his faith and his desire to right wrongs, also has the self-awareness necessary to be a truly great documentary protagonis. Read full review

Joel Keller

Feb 7, 2020

Season 1 Review: The Pharmacist shows how sheer determination, fueled by grief and anger, can drive one man to affect change, even if it’s in the face of a corrupt bureaucracy or a massive corporation. Read full review

Sophie Gilbert

Feb 19, 2020

Season 1 Review: The popularity of easily digestible true-crime narratives has led to a glut of stories such as this one, ambitious and rote and unable to indulge in the skepticism or the soul-searching that subjects as consuming as the opioid epidemic merit. Read full review

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Deanomite

Feb 12, 2020

A pretty good documentary, well made and edited. The way a dad tracks the decay of his son and community through prescription opioids. Netflix does these shows like nobody else, because they are not fed by advertising dollars. Yay.

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Tony1984

Apr 7, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Spoilers: It starts as a drug killing in the ghetto turning into a crusade against a pill mill. Only 4 episodes long and quite well-done production-wise. What I couldn't bring myself to do was like or even empathise with Dan. Kids just don't become drug addicts by themselves. An unhappy home is nearly always the root. You can sense this with Dan's pushy, self-centred grandiose personality, but his home life is never presented as all American happy families. Don’t buy that for a second The murder is solved and then sort of forgotten about, no explanation or anything as to why? Very strange
We then move on to oxycontin abuse perpetrated by one particularly dreadful doctor. Dan and his weird accent, bad grammar and general boorishness makes a nuisance of himself and she gets done eventually with a suspended sentence which would have happened with or without him. The justice system is useless but tell me something I didn't know.

Oxycontin's is badly regulated. The doctor prescription system is inherently flawed but that's not examined. Oxycontin’s benefits to real chronic pain are a gift from God but these are not shown only its abuse. The reasons for the abuse are never not investigated which is a soulless society of despair. THat’s the root of addiction and this is never addressed. It's all a bit propagandistic with God thrown in on top.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: February 5, 2020
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  S1:E4. Tunnel of Hope
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E3. Dope Dealers with White Lab Coats
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E2. A Mission from God
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E1. Justice for Danny
  Air Date: November 30, -0001