‘Dead Ringers’ series review: Rachel Weisz offers two compelling reasons to watch this medico-legal thriller

Though Dead Ringers is gorgeous and creepy, the true story it is inspired by is even more sinister. Dead Ringers Season: 1 Episodes: 6 Runtime: 52 – 64 minutes Creator: Alice Birch Cast: Rachel Weisz, Michael Chernus, Poppy Liu, Britne Oldford, Jeremy Shamos, Jennifer Ehle, Emily Meade Storyline: Twin gynaecologists spiral out of control with drug abuse and morally questionable behaviour as they try to keep their lives separate In David Cronenberg’s feature, Jeremy Irons plays the twins, Elliot and Beverly Mantle. The twins’ desire to be whole, implying there is an incompleteness to them is indicated in Beverly’s poignant comment to Elliot: “You always were a better me.” Elliot’s ravenous hunger for life is revealed in her constant eating and foreshadows Beverly realization of the need to subsume herself. There is also the super-efficient Greta, the twins’ housekeeper whose obsessive tidying up after Beverly and Elliot might have an ominous purpose. Agnes rather tellingly calls Elliot Two-Face dismissing her as being “erased into double negativity.” There is a tension-filled birthday party for the twins, which their parents, Alan and Linda, come from the UK to celebrate.