I just finished this one season re-telling of the criminal saga of the Sacklers.
I take a number of thoughts, questions and reactions from the tale.
Paramount among them is intense anger that a band of drug lords who, it would appear, have the distinction of having the highest number of names of dope-dead people of any drug cartel in history attached to their name, has been allowed to keep a large portion of their recent and drug-gotten gains, and allowed to spend what is arguably a gift-from-some-perverse-god surplus on being held harmless from the law.
That's pretty negative.
But, for me, there is also a huge positive.
The Series's intensely personal and beautiful depiction of the people of Appalachia who were the initial target for the Sacklers has allowed me to remember at a gut level something donnie teased me into forgetting: we are all Americans, and not very different, and all in this mess together.
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