The show is a gender-swapped remake of body-horror master David Cronenberg’s 1988 psychological thriller of the same name. Here's how 'Dead Ringers' subverts the original movie:
), updates the story by putting more emphasis on the realities of the Mantle twins’ profession and female medicine as a whole. When we’re introduced to Beverly and Elliot, they’re working in a Manhattan hospital as they attempt to convince uber-wealthy opioid heiress Rebecca Parker to bankroll the birthing center and accompanying lab they so desperately want to turn into a reality.
“The show transforms into a stylish nightmare, grounded in the real, physical as well as subconscious, messiness at the intersection of science and motherhood and sisterhood and technology and money and morality, whenever the Mantles are alone ,” TIME TV critic Judy Berman wrote in her review. When Beverly becomes entangled with a famous actress named Genevieve after meeting her during an examination—a procedure that Elliot swaps places with her to perform after Beverly gets overwhelmed—things quickly start to spiral out of control. As the sisters’ ever-so-close bond begins to fracture, especially once Beverly gets pregnant without telling Elliot, Elliot goes down an increasingly destructive path.
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