New episodes of "Dope Thief," co-starring Brian Tyree Henry, Wagner Moura, Marin Ireland and Kate Mulgrew, are released Fridays on Apple TV+.

About a third of the way through “Dope Thief” you might get hit by a gnawing and familiar thought: This should have been a two-hour movie, not an eight-episode limited series. It is sporadically ...