This six-episode psychological thriller will blow your mind, and wasted no time in joining the rankings of the most acclaimed series in the world.
Number 1 worldwide on Prime Video as estimated by flix patrolseries Dead Ringers (False pretensesin French) unfolds a disturbing and captivating plot in mini-series format, which should appeal to fans of the thriller series Echoes unveiled on Netflix in 2022. This six-episode program follows the Mantle twins, two ambitious and respected gynecologists ready to do anything to improve the care of women, including pushing the boundaries of medical ethics. Note the impeccable acting of Rachel Weisz, winner of an Oscar and a Golden Globe for The Constant Gardenerwhich gives life to the two obstetricians, whom it is moreover very difficult to dissociate in their white coats.
Rachel Weisz doubles up in Dead Ringers
Dead Ringers to sum up, it is the story of a fusional and unhealthy twinship. Indeed, there is nothing that Elliot and Beverly Mantle do not have in common: their addiction to drugs, lovers or even this irrepressible desire to deconstruct archaic medical practices. These two women who do not seem to be afraid of anything or anyone, as evidenced by this opening scene during which the actress sends her perverse table neighbor to the restaurant in the roses, dream of founding a cutting-edge clinic. Only, the generosity and restraint of one will come up against the compulsive and cynical temperament of the other, for a final result available on Prime Video.
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A modern take on David Cronenberg’s 1988 thriller
Dead Ringers is the remake of a film by David Cronenberg (A History of Violence) released in 1988, where twin gynecologists camped by Jeremy Irons shared the same clinic, the same apartment and the same women. In Amazon’s female proofread created by Alice Birch (Normal People, The Succession, season 2), the male clichés take for their rank, and the woman is no longer the frightening creature of Cronenberg’s fiction. In this series where “pregnancy is no longer a disease”, insists Beverly, stretch marks, childbirth, menstruation, miscarriages and postpartum are staged in a realistic way. A way to lift the veil on motherhood, without evading the psychological, physical and cultural upheavals associated with it.
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