Killer Thriller: Danny Strong Says the Company Behind OxyContin Tried to Change His Mind
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Hey, everyone. Elisa Donovan here, and this is Killer Thriller. Today, we are continuing our conversation with Dope Sick creator, executive producer, and writer, Danny Strong. We'll dive deeper into Purdue Pharma, corporate accountability, and the real-life events that inspired one of television's most powerful true crime dramas. What sort of responsibility did you feel to the families of the victims, for example? Incredible responsibility. But I felt, you know, to me, the show was sort of a tribute to them. But also, you know, when we were making it, it really had felt like they had all gotten away with it. You know, that there hadn't been this reckoning that did come eventually, although they still no one's ever been charged criminally.
But the show shows how they how they how the prosecutors wanted to charge people criminally and how they went through their fingers, you know, and just how it all slipped through their fingers. Right. But but I wanted I very much viewed the show is the trial that Purdue Pharma never got. Right. So I wanted to lay out I wanted to lay out all the deception in a way that just showed the audience in the country, in the world. Right. Whoever was watching this, like this is how it happened. This is how the crimes were committed. So there's so that was a big part of it. And so in a way, you know, I felt like I was a prosecutor. Mm hmm. Making a case and that the show was the case. Right. But I also wanted to be fair to everyone where some prosecutors goal wasn't to be fair.
Their goal is to just get the guilty verdict. Right. Where where I'm also making a piece of art and a piece of drama, you know, and so it's sort of that I want to show insight. I really wanted to with Richard Sackler. I wanted you to understand pressures he was under in ways that he felt were You know, his own sense of pain and what he was going through. And wanting to achieve like that becomes very clear that this is, again, why this is so genius, because it really does get into the details of the family and as outrageous and despicable as their behavior and choices were. It's like he wants to he wants to achieve for his dad. Like he wants to be better than his dad. You know, he wants to make more money, be more successful, be it's just.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–10:25
2
What is Dope Sick and why did Danny Strong create the series?
10:25–12:47
3
How did Danny frame the show as the trial Purdue Pharma never had?
12:47–19:38
4
How did the Sackler family dynamics influence Purdue Pharma’s decisions?
19:38–39:47
Speakers
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