‘Dead Ringers’ Review: Rachel Weisz Delivers a Stunning One-Two Punch in Amazon’s Unsettling Drama Series

Identical twin doctors explore childbirth and fertility innovations in Alice Birch's six-part adaptation of David Cronenberg's 1988 film.

isn’t a perfect series, but in at least three key ways it’s a perfect piece of intellectual property mining.

has a clear reason for wanting to tackle Cronenberg’s twisted tale of identical twin gynecologists, using the added narrative real estate of television and the passing of 35 years as fodder for an examination of reproductive freedom and the fertility industry that’s entirely its own. It’s a spectacular thematic vehicle.

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