As Seen on TV, an occasional column, brings you the inside story behind TV drug ads.
Scientists rendered in moody lighting peer into microscopes; a CGI cell bursts like a microscopic Death Star; and a disembodied voice reads the opening lines of Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” over a flourishing orchestral arrangement.
This is a drug ad.
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