As soon as once more, Netflix is underneath hearth for accusations of “race swapping” following the discharge of the brand new collection Painkilller.
Painkiller makes use of fictional occasions to dramatize the true story of the actual Sackler household and the lawsuit filed towards Purdue Pharma over opioid manufacturing and the subsequent opioid crisis.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Owen Foster and Michael Drescher, along with different workers members on the Vermont U.S. Lawyer’s workplace, had been a number of the real-life investigators who had been vital to the case.
Whereas Painkiller features a character primarily based on real-life US Lawyer John Brownlee, the collection introduces a composite character to signify the opposite key staffers.
Actress Uza Aduba is the fictional champion investigator Edie Flowers, who brings the case towards Purdue Pharma.
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Screenrant studies the choice to create a composite character was “..for the sake of their story,” and that the present’s creators “…wanted to make sure that the hero of the tv collection had one singular face, and that’s the place Aduba as Edie got here in.”
“Noticed a preview for the [Netflix] present Painkiller about Purdue Pharma and seen the story’s intrepid, wily hero Edie Flowers is a black girlboss Fed prosecutor who single-handedly takes down the Sackler household, and thought it was bizarre that I’d by no means heard of this individual and that she’s not a extra outstanding public determine since she completely ticks each lib fantasy field–strutting, crafty, brave, sassy, and who outsmarts her evil Huge Pharma antagonists–however after all, after I regarded up, it seems Edie Flowers isn’t actual. They only made her up.”
Noticed a preview for the Netlfix present Painkiller about Purdue Pharma and seen the story’s intrepid, wily hero Edie Flowers is a black girlboss Fed prosecutor who single-handedly takes down the Sackler household, and thought it was bizarre that I’d by no means heard of this individual and that… pic.twitter.com/rOZzpVRO7j
— Lomez (@L0m3z) December 8, 2023
The Gateway Pundit reported that the Netflix collection about Cleopatra courted controversy for altering the race of the title character from Greek/Macedonian to African.
It’s such an apparent rewrite of historical past that even the federal government of Egypt objected to the collection.