Miniseries · Netflix
The Business of Drugs
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Business of Drugs actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Business of Drugs reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Serialized.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The story
What it's about
To detail how drugs push people into risky — even deadly — behaviors, a former CIA analyst investigates the economics of six illicit substances.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Gillian BrownProducer
- Nick CarewProducer
- Jesse SweetProducer
Writing
- Amaryllis FoxWriter
Direction
- Jesse SweetDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
- NetflixStreaming
- Netflix Standard with AdsStreaming
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