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Designing the healthcare system horror of Dead Ringers

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In a TV and movie landscape that can often feel bogged down by reboots and a dependency on IP, Dead Ringers pulls off a minor miracle.

The Amazon Prime Video series is based on the 1988 David Cronenberg movie of the same name but doesn’t exist to remind viewers of the past, instead it using the story as a vessel into which writer Alice Birch has poured big ideas about the state of the American healthcare system — specifically how it treats mothers.

Rachel Weisz plays sisters Beverly and Elliot Mantle, a pair of codependent gynecologists. What could feel gimmicky — one person taking up two roles at the same time — instead heightens the sense of the uncanny that runs throughout this version of Dead Ringers.

Weisz makes each sister their own person: Elliot is wild and unpredictable, Beverly far more reserved. It’s not an exaggeration to say that while watching, you can forget that they’re both played by the same actor.

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