Season 2 Premiere:
Dr. Death
Cast & Crew
Matt Roush says...
Not exactly a happy holiday attraction, the second installment of the disturbing true-crime docudrama anthology (available as an eight-episode binge) exposes another bad physician: so-called “Miracle Man” Paolo Macchiarini (Edgar Ramírez), a charismatic Swiss-born surgeon whose supposed breakthroughs in Europe with artificial transplants of replacement windpipes turned out to indeed be too good to be true. His fame brought him to the U.S., where an NBC News producer (This Is Us star Mandy Moore) falls under his spell, until grisly reality sets in. Accompanied by a 90-minute documentary Dr. Death: Cutthroat Conman, for those who might have missed Netflix’s earlier documentary on the deadly doc, Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife.