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7. "Six" - Dead Ringers
Based on David Cronenberg's 1988 film of the same name, Dead Ringers is anything but a simple remake.
Gender-swapping the role of the original protagonists, the 2023 Amazon Prime miniseries is led by Rachel Weisz in a dual role as gynecologist twin sisters Beverly and Elliot Mantle. The veteran character actress turns in a sensational performance, producing a pair of layered and nuanced takes on her vastly differing fictional charges.
While Dead Ringers is polished and refined from the get-go, the miniseries' climactic episode is simply exceptional. The sixth instalment deals with the final break between the seemingly inseparable sisters as the pregnant Beverly is effectively mercy-killed by Elliot via C-section. The episode ties the series' complex array of narrative threads together in as satisfying a manner as possible, despite Elliot's assumption of her sister's identity simultaneously evoking a host of further questions and philosophical discussion.
Dead Ringers may have begun as a Cronenberg remake on paper, but the intricacy of the series' finale outstrips the bounds of the original by a country mile. The strength of the sixth and final episode reinvents the miniseries into a thought-provoking nightmare of its own, with an inspired twist on The Baron of Blood's original ending painting his cinematic offering as fairly basic by comparison.