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recommend tv series
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- palimpsest-1
As a Cronemberg and Dead Ringers fan I was surprised to recently find out it was made into a series. I've watched two episodes and I'm terribly disappointed. I went in thinking that the gender swap was a perfect fit for the story.The movie is claustrophobic, nuanced, perverse, perfect. The series feels like it wants to be Succession in scrubs. I later found out that one of the writers wrote for Succession. Instead of the suffocating intimacy between the twins, we get performative "look at me twins" and endless money-talk satire. The series seems to be trying to cover too many bases in an attempt to seem deep and ends up being shallow. There were a lot of crevices to explore in the movie that were missed in the series.
- Is the series called Dead Ringers? I could never really be arsed with Succession for exactly those reasons.Ianbolton
- Heathen!
Yes, the series is called Dead Ringers (2023).palimpsest - Cronemberg is unsettling, Succession is corrosive, the series is cringe.palimpsest
- Started succession a few times and only ever made it to episode 4 or 5. I’d rather watch some weird, unsettling Cronenberg shit all day long.Ianbolton
- Hmm love the original film, but might rewatch Nip/Tuck instead of this...MrT