In this Roundtable, we welcome Writer, Creator, and Director Danny Strong, Cinematographer Checco Varese and Director of episodes 5 & 6 Patricia Riggen of the Hulu Series Dopesick.

The conversation focuses on the responsibility of creating an episodic series covering the national opioid crisis, and how such a series helps expose the architects of this crisis, making evident the roots of such a convoluted and complicated situation.

Among other topics, the group delves into the process building a creative team, the choices faced by a director coming into a show for specific episodes, how the Writer, Showrunner, Cinematographer and Director collaborate on an episodic series.