EPISODE
The Crime of the Century - Season 1
A searing indictment of Big Pharma and the political operatives and government regulations that enable over-production, reckless distribution and abuse of synthetic opiates.
May 10, 2021
A difficult, sorrowful exploration of how widespread avarice led to mass murder and why no one seems willing to stop it.
May 03, 2021
As Alex Gibney's shattering two-part, four-hour HBO documentary The Crime of the Century makes devastatingly clear, the opioid crisis is more than a human tragedy that has claimed half a million lives. It's part of what America has become.
May 10, 2021
While The Crime of the Century becomes a wildly broad damnation of the forces behind the opioid epidemic, it's nonetheless righteous in its anger.
May 10, 2021
The Crime of the Century is far too safe and shallow.
May 10, 2021
The scourge needs a reckoning and this straightforward documentary comes close to igniting it.
May 06, 2021
The cinema is as exhilarating as the journalism is exhaustive. Still, the style remains in service to the story.
May 10, 2021
Presented in association with the Washington Post, whose reporters are prominently featured, Crime of the Century at times plays like a glossy thriller... As Gibney puts it, the truly awful aspect of the opioid crisis is that it was "manufactured."
