Despite the name, Dr. Death won’t die, returning for a second season
The doctor is in. Peacock's Dr. Death will return for another season of medical true crime horrors. But will it be covered by insurance?!?
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The great thing about true crime is we’ll never run out of inspiration. There are more than enough factually-based horrors for viewers to obsess over, whether it be yet another Peterson with a penchant for wife killing or a neurosurgeon that killed and maimed dozens of patients. The things that don’t qualify as HPPA violations would shock people.
Peacock knows this, so they went ahead and greenlit another season of the anthology series Dr. Death. Based on the podcast of the same name (the podcast-to-streaming-series pipeline is as strong as ever), Doctor Death follows a different medical crime each season. And yet, we’ve heard nothing about a Diagnosis Murder X Doctor Death collaboration.
Anyway, since this next season won’t be about Dick Van Dyke investigating a Doctor Death of some sort, what will it be about? Deadline confirms that season two will follow the story of “charming surgeon” Paolo Macchiarini, a renowned doctor known as the “Miracle Man” due to his innovative operations. Miracle Man? That doesn’t sound like a Dr. Death. Deadline continues:
When investigative journalist Benita Alexander approaches him for a story, the line between personal and professional begins to blur, changing her life forever. As she learns how far Paolo will go to protect his secrets, a group of doctors halfway across the world make shocking discoveries of their own that call everything about the “Miracle Man” into question.
Dr. Death’s last season features Joshua Jackson as Dr. Christopher Duntsch, the disgraced neurosurgeon who killed 38 patients. The series got high marks here at The A.V. Club. Reviewer Joshua Alston wrote in his review of season one, “Even with relatively little actual viscera, the tragedy of Duntsch’s rampage stands among the year’s most visceral TV experiences.”
[Sigh] Our insurance premiums are about to go up, aren’t they?
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Physician, kill thyself.
Dr. Pacey says he considered suicide after mean comments.
“HPPA”1. It contains an I.2. Two As, not two Ps.You managed to fit two typos into one word. I’m almost impressed.
Hell, it’s not even a word – it’s an initialism!It’s like managing to crash a car when you don’t own a car, don’t even drive, and were actually on a small tropical island where there are zero cars.
And the title element still says “Hulu” although it got fixed elsewhere. Love this joint
RIP Dr Joshua Jackson
RIP Peter Bishop.I don’t recognize this dad-guy.
He looks nothing like Jayant Patel.
It would be nice if for a change we could get a telling of this story that actually focuses on the victims and the administration politics that allowed Macchiarini to get away with his crimes. Instead, like nearly every telling of this story and the respective season of the Dr. Death podcast it’s going to be 90% about “award winning investigative reporter is duped into tanking her career for a guy who convinces her that he’s part of a secret doctor task force that treats the world’s elite and that the Pope will officiate their wedding (despite both spouses being divorcees) which will be attended by Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin and is stunned to discover that was all a lie”. I get that that is the more entertaining story but this dude got several people killed.
I feel like I’ve already seen a half dozen Dateline episodes about this guy, but I’m probably confusing him with some other medical grifter who duped women into thinking the Pope would officiate their wedding ceremony. Dime a dozen, those guys.I already know I won’t like this season as much because it won’t feature any scenes of Christian Slater getting righteously angry about his pool guy getting maimed and beating the hell out of his pool with a skimmer.