Rachel Weisz's haunting performance in 'Dead Ringers' leaves a lasting impression.
Rachel Weisz stars in a six-part reimagining of David Cronenberg's 1988 thriller "Dead Ringers," now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Weisz plays both Elliot and Beverly Mantle, identical twin doctors whose personal lives are mutually self-destructive. The gender-flip is key, and it ends up being just the tip of an iceberg that's razor-sharp from top to bottom. The show explores themes of identity, sexuality, and biology, and takes advantage of both the medical progress that's happened since the late 1980s, as well as the fact that the politicization of women's bodies is once again drawing lines in the public mindset.