Yes, I agree to a point that this does make a case against a giant pharmaceutical firm, where now some bodies are in evidence. It is not an indictment of all big pharma businesses. This is fictional and the one featured here was messing around. Judd Hirsch's Alan makes a case for the trading off benefits versus negatives. His statement at the end is on point. It's like when a great athlete dies young, all his future accomplishments die with him. It's a different kind of show for this series.
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More Propoganda About Big Business Government Conspiracies
WYAdams27 November 2019
Warning: Spoilers
I wanted to rate this episode higher because it had Edgerton in it, but the tired old left wing propaganda ruined the entire episode.
This episode has it all. A poor innocent rancher being framed for a murder he did not commit while being pursued by a paid assassin hired by a big pharmaceutical company that is colluding with the FDA to sell harmful drugs. We see the left wing propagandist Hollywood writers going all out in this episode. They pulled out all the stops in this episode.
In addition, two other problems ruined the episode. Even though the characters are supposedly geniuses with advanced university degrees, they actor are still mouthing the words written by mundane, bigoted Hollywood writers with average in intelligences and education, so errors crop up all the time.
The first annoying error were the constant references to "over the counter drugs" when they meant "prescription drugs."
The second was the result of ignorance of the topic being written about resulting in the use of terms that are incorrect. Specifically, they kept talking about "Quantum Chemistry." I guess it sounded more exotic to say quantum chemistry, but it is clearly wrong. My degree is chemistry and I worked as a chemist for close to ten years so I know what I am talking about. Quantum chemistry deals with quantum mechanics and would not be the field of chemistry employed by a pharmaceutical researcher developing new drugs.
So the ridiculous Jason Borne like plot and the factual errors ruined the show to the point that not even Edgerton could save it.
This episode has it all. A poor innocent rancher being framed for a murder he did not commit while being pursued by a paid assassin hired by a big pharmaceutical company that is colluding with the FDA to sell harmful drugs. We see the left wing propagandist Hollywood writers going all out in this episode. They pulled out all the stops in this episode.
In addition, two other problems ruined the episode. Even though the characters are supposedly geniuses with advanced university degrees, they actor are still mouthing the words written by mundane, bigoted Hollywood writers with average in intelligences and education, so errors crop up all the time.
The first annoying error were the constant references to "over the counter drugs" when they meant "prescription drugs."
The second was the result of ignorance of the topic being written about resulting in the use of terms that are incorrect. Specifically, they kept talking about "Quantum Chemistry." I guess it sounded more exotic to say quantum chemistry, but it is clearly wrong. My degree is chemistry and I worked as a chemist for close to ten years so I know what I am talking about. Quantum chemistry deals with quantum mechanics and would not be the field of chemistry employed by a pharmaceutical researcher developing new drugs.
So the ridiculous Jason Borne like plot and the factual errors ruined the show to the point that not even Edgerton could save it.
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