20 Best TV Shows Of 2021
15. Dopesick
Based on the book of the same name and brought to the screen by Danny Strong, Dopesick is a galvanising miniseries that takes uncompromising aim at America's opioid crisis, a tricky subject often neglected on the small screen.
Due to its material, the drama is by no means an easy or calming watch, but its depiction of addiction and injustice is at once vital and utterly engrossing, creating sharp, educational entertainment out of real-life human tragedy that shouldn't be ignored.
None of this would be possible, of course, without its core cast, which is led by career-best work from Michael Keaton, Michael Stuhlbarg and Kaitlyn Dever.
Harrowing and eye-opening, Dopesick makes for a devastating watch, but one that you can't help but feel inexplicably trapped by. It's heartbreaking stuff, and lays into its subject with compelling honesty and sympathetic humanism.