Dopesick
First Bottle
TV Flash files “First Bottle” as a desk essential hour — Dopesick (2021) on Hulu, season 1, episode 1, aired 2021-10-13, 62 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 8 in the Dopesick guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 2021-10-13 (62 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “Breakthrough Pain” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “First Bottle”. First Bottle as the Hulu contract: Michael Keaton's doctor watching a county get eaten, Purdue already smiling in the cut, Appalachia not scenery.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Richard Sackler begins to launch a powerful new painkiller, a rural doctor is introduced to the drug, a coal miner plans her future, a DEA Agent learns of blackmarket pills, and federal prosecutors decide to open a case into OxyContin.
Viewer FAQ
Where does First Bottle sit in the Dopesick guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 8 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did Dopesick S01E01 air?
First Bottle aired 2021-10-13 and is listed at 62 minutes.
Is it a limited series?
Yes, 2021. Doctors, victims, and Purdue boardrooms in one complete accountability arc — not an open medical franchise.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Michael Keaton's fury as a doctor watching OxyContin eat a county, cut against Purdue boardrooms that sold a lie with a smile. Hulu's opioid-crisis prestige connected policy to people without turning Appalachia into scenery. Watch for pharma-accountability television that still feels like a public record, not a true-crime snack with a sad piano.
Once upon a network-movie night, an epidemic arrived as a very special two-hour and a sad piano. Danny Strong's Dopesick, 2021 on Hulu, has the manners of a public record: Michael Keaton as Dr. Samuel Finnix watching OxyContin eat a county, cut against Purdue boardrooms that sold a lie with a smile. Peter Sarsgaard, Kaitlyn Dever, Rosario Dawson in the braid. Doctors, victims, corporate architects. Pharma-accountability prestige that connected policy to people without turning Appalachia into scenery. Fury as…
Filed against
- Michael Keaton as Dr. Samuel Finnix
Michael Keaton’s Dr. Samuel Finnix watched OxyContin eat a county on Dopesick — Hulu 2020s opioid-crisis prestige, Purdue boardrooms that sold a lie with a smile, policy cut against people. Appalachia as a place, not scenery. TV Flash…
- Peter Sarsgaard as Rick Mountcastle
Peter Sarsgaard plays Rick Mountcastle on Dopesick, Hulu’s 2020s opioid-crisis prestige — Michael Keaton’s fury as a doctor watching OxyContin eat a county, cut against Purdue boardrooms that sold a lie with a smile. Policy connected to…
- Kaitlyn Dever as Betsy Mallum
Kaitlyn Dever’s Betsy Mallum put a face on Dopesick’s county — Michael Keaton’s fury as a doctor watching OxyContin eat a place, Purdue boardrooms selling a lie with a smile, Hulu opioid-crisis prestige connecting policy to people without…
- Rosario Dawson as Bridget Meyer
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