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- Apr 21, 2023
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Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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88% Positive
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8% Mixed
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4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
79
88% Positive
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
8% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Gorgeously unsettling tour de force. ... Dead Ringers is an incredible work of art, full of knotty conversations about the give and take of society at all levels. It takes an unapologetically feminine look at the politics, science, and emotion of maternity in the modern medical era. But more than anything else, it’s a brilliant showcase for one Rachel Weisz, who is operating at the top of her game.
Weisz’s nuanced performance as Elliot and Beverly is next-level brilliant. ... A twisty, unsettling narrative that’s at once darkly entertaining and dangerously unpredictable. “Dead Ringers” is must-see TV, even when it’s hard to watch.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 User Ratings
6.9
67% Positive
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17% Mixed
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17% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 User Ratings
6.9
67% Positive
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
17% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
17% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
Pleasantly surprised. A+ for me. One of the best mini series I've watched in recent years, I desperately wanted more episodes in this wild universe! Absolutely unhinged and spellbinding. I dare to say it's better than the movie at times, especially the themes touched. It goes without saying that Rachel Weisz is phenomenal, but I found the writing very clever too (though I would have done without a few filler scenes). The relationship between the twins will haunt for a long time. Great all around.
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SEASON 1
This show just blew my mind. Everything about it is pristine, especially the performances and music. Rachel Weisz is breathtaking, but so is her scene partners-much of the time it's herself. It took me no time to completely believe in these 2 very different twin women. I won't cover the plot, as I think it's best to go into it with as few details as possible. I saw the film it's based on when I was a teenager (can you imagine?!) and I must have compartmentalized it at the time as it's quite the horror story. There is body gore, but I think it's manageable even for the weakest of tummies. It will likely be review bombed by pro-lifers/bigots as this show revolves around obstetrics and it has **** storylines. Honestly how do these ding dongs have time to do stuff like that; how embarrassing. Anyhow, RUN, don't walk to see this incredible show. Truly the best of the year thus far. Enjoy & cheers!
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SEASON 1
All of Birch’s delicate, even dangerous work would have largely been for naught had she not nabbed Weisz. Playing Beverley and Elliot with a sharp, intimidating level of commitment, the actress is riveting and wondrous.
Promises to be a rather magnificent drama, with a lean, dark, genuinely funny script by Alice Birch and two knockout performances by Weisz.
It’s a measure of this seductive horror show that you want to watch these weird sisters carry on, and on.
If the final episode feels a bit rushed and reveals that some of the season's subplots don't really add up to much, Dead Ringers is an undeniably audacious, provocative, tough to shake series.
DOA. Despite the maternity ward screaming and cursing and blood on the aprons, the cocaine-whiffing and lesbian-contrived-kissing, the series is … boring. It’s an off-putting story— not on the documentary level, but on the dramaturgical.
I found Dead Ringers to be bizarre, disorienting and riveting viewing. It's impossible to look away even when you know you don't want to see what happens next. Rachel Weisz's performanc(es). brilliantly make two look-a-like characters easy to differentiate even when they are switching places.
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SEASON 1
Massive Show, Very Well Done, well acted well paced, super dramatic & shows the hell of childbirth and is the first time it's shown with realistic perspective
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SEASON 1
Whether it's more ambitious than Cronenberg's film is debatable, but it's fair to give credit where credit is due, and the reimagining of that film in this miniseries was a refreshing and stimulating surprise.
This version of Dead Ringers takes certain concepts from Cronenberg's film yet exploring other variants and that's something that can be afforded when you get over the constraints that two hours of running time gives.
Its best accomplishment is knowing what to borrow from the film that inspired it, but it explores its own thing.
That's incredibly beneficial to its concept, serving its storytelling with key changes and yet preserving the strangeness and discomfort of the original stuff.
Rachel Weisz's work in this dual performance is bold and exceptional. She is the rock on which it all stands.
Without her performance I don't see how this would have worked.
Between the twisted, the disturbing and the passivity of several of its passages, Dead Ringers may seem boring to a certain section of the audience, and I can understand why, but as far as I'm concerned, I think it manages to solve many of its weaknesses by being unpredictable and provocative both in its plot and its themes.
Maybe it doesn't go that far with what it incorporates narratively at a certain point, especially when it comes to genetic manipulation, but that's because for the most part it stays anchored as a psychosexual thriller that gets a somewhat more complex conclusion than I expected because it doesn't pick the ending of the movie that was also the same ending of the real people who inspired that story.
By doing that, certain events that were seen in other episodes have to be seen in a different light in order to decipher their meaning and that's always a good thing for any story.
It's only six episodes. It's totally worth it. This is one of the best things Prime Video has ever released.
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SEASON 1
Events in history happen twice, first time as a tragedy, second time as a farce... Though, to be honest, the show shares next to nothing with the film except name and tagline. Which is fine, but touches on the core problem of the show, where it is very good at citing topics and themes, but can't do anything with them, let alone anything clever, so it just cranks up the volume to 11 and crams in more stuff.
That's fun to watch for two episodes, when it consequently collapses in on itself. The weirdness becomes pastiche, the dark humor becomes overly hilarious, a crisis of identity becomes going le mad, the feeling of discomfort becomes just awkward.
The acting is very good all around and everything looks great, but instead of the characters unraveling, it's the show falling apart.
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SEASON 1