Peter Berg on Directing 'Painkiller' and Why There's No 'Friday Night Lights' Spinoffs

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He also talks about how his working relationship with Taylor Kitsch started & reteaming for the upcoming Netflix Western series 'American Primeval.'

The Big Picture The limited Netflix series Painkiller, based on the book by Barry Meier and the New Yorker Magazine article “The Family that Built the Empire of Pain” by Patrick Radden Keefe, explores the origins of the opioid crisis in America and the destruction that it has left in its wake.

Each of these episodes kicks off with a gut punch, with the real-life stories from families who have been touched by loss and grief from opioids. What made that something you wanted to do for this? Did you just feel that it was really important to set that personal connection, at the start of every episode?

Are people ever surprised that you encourage that level of collaboration? Do you have to sometimes convince them? Did you have conversations about how to handle Richard Sackler talking to the ghost of his uncle Arthur? What led to that fictionalized aspect of the series?

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