Dead Ringers- Amazon Prime

Can I really be the first person to post about this show?

Okay, it’s a “remake” of the David Cronenberg thriller of the same name from 1988 starring Jeremy Irons as two twin gynecologists who get funky with the medical science and their patients. I’m ashamed to say I’ve never watched it, but…

This new one is an entire show. With Rachel Weisz as the twins. I mean, even the opening sequence is noteworthy, as it shows scenes in a model of a birthing center with small colored clay women on the middle of birthing, being examined, bleeding … the whole kit AND the caboodle. And it’s just the opening sequence!

I’m only part way through the first episode, but already one of the twins miscarried while peeing, and another scene showed Leopold’s maneuvers being done on a surrogate (her 5th for this same client) while the wealthy donor / client and generally awful women who will be the mother yells at the doctor and swears because one of the twin doctors is trying to focus on the patient.

Again. Just partly into the first episode, but this show will be a medfetter’s delight, I guarantee it.

Now. Discuss!

-g

Oh, just to add…

Generally, I hold most modern remakes of classic/successful franchises that switch up the race or gender of the main characters in great contempt. It’s remakes for the sake of wokeness, not a new take on a classic.

But it’s 35 years since the original film. And even the original was based on a book. Gynecology and medicine have evolved a lot, and it’s not at all odd IMHO to portray the doctors as female. On fact, I think it might even add to it a bit since they can experiment on themselves rather than just other patients, as in the Cronenberg film.

Plus…as amazing as Jeremy Irons is, Rachel Weisz….wow. What a brilliant actor for this role in this day and age. Beautiful, great dark look underneath her eyes, and definitely in the top tier of currently working actors today.

-g

Is the medical scene worth seeing? I have to say that I believe the original movie may have been my first tingle of a notion of medical fetish before I knew there was such a thing. I was not even a teen yet and I watched that exam over and over. I must have worn out the old VHS haha.