Dope Thief Series-Finale Recap: Do You Want to Be Alive?

Photo: AppleTV+ Try as I might to keep my default-movie-guy bias in check when swimming in the waters of TV - blurred as the lines are between the things we used to call "television" and "cinema" in the 21st-century "content" colonization of art and categories - sometimes you gotta bite the bullet, dig your heels into what you know, and call a thing what it is. And Dope Thief's final episode proves that some crime stories are better suited for a feature-length investigation. This may come as a surprise to anyone who's been following along with me week to week. My notes have . . .