Add your email and we'll match picks to the services you stream at home.

Poster for The Business of Drugs

The Business of Drugs

Seen it?

2020 | 1 seasons | 45 min | Documentary, Crime

Weeknight Watchearly rating

Why it’s a Weeknight Watch

With a small audience and almost no lasting buzz, it's a mixed bag. Fine if it's on; don't plan your night around it.

Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.

Is it for you?

Who'll love it
Made for crime fans and the curious. If you loved The Wire, start here.
The mood
Gritty, eye-opening.
The pace
One season: easy to finish in a weekend or two, episodes of about 45 minutes, about 5 hours in all.
What might put you off
Rated TV-MA: expect drug use.

To detail how drugs push people into risky — even deadly — behaviors, a former CIA analyst investigates the economics of six illicit substances.

How it earned its rating

  • CriticsNot counted

    Not enough reviews on record yet

  • AudiencesBelow par

    6.9 out of 10

  • AwardsNot counted

    No major awards or nominations

  • Reach & staying powerWeak

    Limited series that reached a small audience so far; interest faded quickly after launch

  • Buzz & cultural impactWeak

    About 3K people sought it out in the past year

Trailer

More like this

Want more like this, picked just for you? Get my picks

Cast & crew

  • Amaryllis FoxSelf