A psychological thriller about twin gynecologists losing their minds now has a sibling of its own. And it's a girl.
The Prime Video miniseries "Dead Ringers" revisits the strange story told in David Cronenberg's 1988 feature starring Jeremy Irons in the lead roles of Beverly and Elliot Mantle. That film was based on the Bari Wood and Jack Geasland novel "Twins," itself inspired by the true story of prominent New York gynecologists Stewart and Cyril Marcus. The Marcuses were found dead in shocking squalor in their apartment in 1975, following what may have been a drug-fueled, mutual mental collapse.
Rather than seize upon the popular true-crime trend, the miniseries actually treks further from the facts for an entirely reconsidered update of the film. It delves far more deeply into the world of fertility treatment and childbirth and into the very different siblings' symbiosis — while flipping their gender to sisters, played by Oscar winner Rachel Weisz. Switching their perspective to female couldn't help but provide fertile dramatic ground.
