The mini-series, based on Laura Beal’s eponymous podcast, is troubling the stratosphere due to its brilliant script and performances, and terrifyingly realistic production
even though Dr. Death Horrorly written and acted out, it would still have been interesting as it was based on real events. Doctors are there to heal us and relieve our pain. They are not meant to attack our bodies and cause serious physical damage and death. One can’t take one’s eyes off the stratospherically disturbing Dr. Death, based on Laura Beal’s eponymous podcast, thanks to its superb script and performances, and terrific actual production. I don’t think I’ll be able to get the sound of mallet’s bones crushing out of my head anytime soon.
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The podcast, which premiered in 2018, looks at misconduct by medical professionals. Each of the podcast’s three seasons so far looks at different cases. The first, on which the show is based, sees Dr. Christopher Duntsch (Joshua Jackson), a talented Dallas neurosurgeon who killed two of his patients while operating on nearly all of the patients (33 out of 38). .
With Duntsch currently in prison with a blank face, the show goes back to Duntsch’s student days, when he first tried out for a football scholarship and then decided to turn to medicine and an ambitious MD-PhD program. did. His lure by top medical centers in 2012 is intercut with abundant alcohol and drug use, poor surgery, and the efforts of two doctors: Randall Kirby (Christian Slater) and Robert Henderson (Alec Baldwin) to stop Duntash.
Dr. Death
- Episodes: 8
- Run Time: 44 to 63 minutes
- Producer: Patrick McManus
- Starring: Joshua Jackson, Grace Gummer, Christian Slater, Alec Baldwin, AnnaSophia Robb, Fred Lehne, Kelsey Grammer, Dominic Burgess, Molly Griggs
- Story: The Painful True Story of Medical Malpractice
The loopholes in the medical system, which allow Duntush to harm its patients, are examined. It is ultimately the attempt of Michelle Shugert (Annasophia Robb) from the DA’s office to prove that Duntsch was intentionally harming his patients, which sees him sentenced to life in prison.
While the acting is equally good, Jackson is upbeat as Duntash, whose deadly ego ensures that the other person is always to blame. Duntsch could not believe he was a bad surgeon; Apparently he had to plead guilty only during the court hearing. Jackson is a dead ringer for the charming but frighteningly lethargic man, whose toxicity affects every relationship he has with his wife, Wendy, (Molly Griggs), best friend Jerry Summers (Dominic Burgess), and boyfriend Kim (Grace Gummer). does. , Dr. Skadden (Kelsey Grammer), and father, Don (Fred Lehney).
Jackson as a stone-faced Duntash walking away from Jerry, who is rendered quadriplegic by his, Duntash, surgery is one of the show’s most terrifying and poignant scenes. Summers died of complications from surgery this year and the show is dedicated to her. Slater nails the motor-mouth vascular surgeon Kirby, while Baldwin brings the necessary gravity to Henderson, the good doctor who can’t fathom Duntsch’s cavalier attitude to the Hippocratic Oath.
While these restless times, when doctors around the world are going above and beyond the call of duty to care for us, it may not be best to see a rogue doctor, this is reason to look away from a cautionary tale. Not there. Dr. Death.
Dr Death is currently streaming on Lionsgate Play
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