What stands out about your review, beyond its misnaming of the series title in your first sentence, is that you seem oblivious to the use of satire as a way to explore humanity’s darkest aspects. Whether it be Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” or Michael Radford’s film adaptation of Orwell’s “1984,” or another standout anti-war satire, “Catch-22,” the director invites us to examine the mephistophelian Sackler dynasty through the an exaggerated, darkly comic representation of evil and its doers that breaks the tiresome American movie portrayal of that subject with cardboard characters, labored virtue signaling, and time-worn set pieces.

I understand you are out of your depth here, and I sympathize, but nevertheless I offer this more positive interpretation of the series to your readers as sort of an antidote to your obtuse analysis.