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Critic Reviews
ColliderJul 13, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Jackson's vacant-eyed stare will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up, as it reveals the hollowness within Duntsch's core. .... Dr. Death hails from creator Patrick Macmanus (Marco Polo), and I can offer high praise to both him and the show's directors Maggie Kiley, Jennifer Morrison, and especially So Yong Kim, all of whom milk the suspense here for all it's worth.
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Jul 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Dr. Death comes alive as Duntsch moves from the periphery. Naturally, the show’s success relies heavily on Jackson, whose eternal boyishness has never been wielded to greater effect. Jackson turns in a deft and nuanced performance in a role that spans two decades and requires him to play the show’s protagonist and antagonist simultaneously.
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Jul 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The writing, directing, and performances combine to make a taunt eight hours of TV, one that you will most likely quickly binge your way through. You’ll also be left with the unsettling knowledge that this is a true story, that this could and probably will happen again. That it could happen to you.
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The Daily BeastJan 18, 2024
Season 2 Review:
It stretches out over eight episodes, allowing time for Edgar Ramírez’s Macchiarini to seduce not just Miller (played by Mandy Moore), his patients, and his colleagues, but the viewer as well. .... Ramírez and Moore fill the series’ center, but some of the best work here is done on the periphery. Luke Kirby, as dour, skeptical American surgeon Nathan Gamelli, and Gustaf Hammarsten, as shaggy Swedish researcher Dr. Svensson, provide dramatic and ethical ballast to the romantic sizzle.
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ColliderDec 21, 2023
Season 2 Review:
The first thing that Dr. Death Season 2 improves on from Season 1 is the writing of its female characters. .... But more than that, Season 2 of Dr. Death gives more space for us to get to know and care about Macchiarini’s patients, which ensures the series plays out like a horror story in several moments.
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Jul 8, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The most striking aspect of this story, perhaps, is the current of plausibility that runs through it all, that says this is what can happen, this is what did happen to the victims of someone revered as an authority, like Duntsch. Plausibility that says, too, that despite the severed arteries and deadly surgeries, voices of sanity do sometimes prevail, justice does often triumph. And it’s shown doing so in this impressive series.
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RogerEbert.comJul 14, 2021
Jul 14, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The actors are also working at a level above the mechanical script. It hardly matters if the series around him understands Duntsch, because Jackson plays him with chilling consistency, so committed to his character’s commitment to his own brilliance and infallibility that you occasionally find yourself believing.
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Dec 20, 2023
Season 2 Review:
It doesn’t help that episodes follow a haphazard timeline—cities and years keep changing within an installment without sufficient narrative explanations to help fill in the gaps. Despite the drawbacks, Dr. Death succeeds as a real gut-punch because of the affecting stories it tells. Plus, the performances are strong.
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Jul 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
We have a lot of reservations about Dr. Death, but considering the show will examine just how a butcher like Duntsch can keep getting hired by major hospitals who should be vetting their hires better. The cast helps things along, despite their sometimes over-the-top performances.
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Jul 15, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Duntsch’s story would be tough to stitch up in even the steadiest of auteur’s hands. Hats off to Macmanus and directors Maggie Kiley, Jennifer Morrison and So Yong Kim for their ambitious vision, not to mention the ace cast. At the same time, it’s a shame that Dr. Death is too often so dull.
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Jul 13, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Dr. Death relishes in the lurid details and messy personal lives of its characters, employing nonlinear chronology for maximum drama and ironic juxtaposition. But despite the show’s few thrills, its structure only reveals an unsteady grasp of the story at its center.
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