Pete Berg Had Personal Reasons For Wanting To Direct Netflix’s ‘Painkiller’

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Aug. 15, 2023 – It was a kismet twist of fate that Netflix’s limited series Painkiller premiered in tandem with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to reassess Purdue Pharma’s $6 billion bankruptcy deal.

The six-episode series premiered on August 10 and quickly jumped to No. 1 on the English TV List with more than 7.2 million views (35.9 million hours viewed), and it’s landed in the Top 10 in 72 countries.

Starring Matthew Broderick and Orange is the New Black’s Uzo Aduba, the story details the origins of the opioid crisis. It unravels the OxyContin epidemic and how this deadly drug overtook America in the 1990s. It all started with OxyContin and is now primarily Fentanyl, which kills roughly 100,000 people annually … Berg is happy that the Supreme Court is reviewing Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy case. “The Sackler family has gotten away with it. They’ve done an extraordinary job of using lawyers, Rudy Giuliani included, to protect themselves. They lost their legacy, which was very important to them. Their name has been vilified, but they’ve artfully held onto their $15 billion nest egg. They’ve escaped real pain.”