The new TV series version of David Cronenberg’s 1988 film can’t justify its six-hour runtime, wasting Weisz, who does her best playing twins, to salvage things.
’s 1988 feature film did in two—an example of subtraction by addition that’s indicative of modern streaming services’ approach to expansive adaptation. Handsomely mounted, well-performed, and modestly engaging, it puts forth great effort and care to achieve inferior redundancy. Or, to state the issue more plainly via a quote from one of its characters, “Why are we doing this again?”
In this modernization, Beverly has been recast as a lesbian, Elliot makes a snarky comment about someone being “woke,” and the origins of women’s medicine are posited as explicitly racist in nature. But because Cronenberg’s film is, in its own idiosyncratic way, perfect, there’s no reason for Birch’sto justify its own existence.
That dynamic is destabilized by the appearance of actress Genevieve , whom Elliot seduces for Beverly , only to then see Beverly fall in love with the star, thereby threatening the siblings’ union.
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