Seeing as it's based on a David Cronenberg movie, it should come as a surprise to no one that new Prime Video series Dead Ringers is, well... pretty bloody dark. But for creator Alice Birch and lead actor Rachel Weisz, it was "crucial" to showcase the sillier sides of its twin protagonists in the disturbing, twisty thriller.
Much like in the 1988 film, the show follows gynecologists Elliot and Beverly. Here, the sisters deal with pregnancy and baby-related issues too, which sees them strike up a complicated alliance with Rebecca Parker (Jennifer Ehle), the morally defunct tycoon responsible for a New York City-wide opioid crisis, to set up their own birthing center. When Beverly embarks on a romance with Genevieve (Britne Oldford), though, the duo's co-dependence becomes strained – and their Frankenstein-esque ambitions in their work find themselves pushed to madness and malpractice.
