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🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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One. Nobody was asking for a mini-series adaptation of David Cronenberg’s 1988 film Dead Ringer featuring Jeremy Irons as Identical Twin Gynecologists (not a bit). Fortunately, Prime Video specializes in content nobody was asking for and Rachel Weisz has an incredible Jeremy Irons impression. Red & Ivan are out of the Silo and back in an even more hellish scenario: The Present. They talk Dead Ringers on Prime Video.
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0:00.0 | I did not know which medical tools were like actual medical tools and which are like |
0:06.4 | cronumburgy and fake overdesigned medical tools if she just held up a potato |
0:10.9 | peeler I'd be like yeah it seems right |
0:36.9 | I'm Red Scott and I'm Ivan Hernandez and this |
0:40.3 | this boy's going swords the third best podcast hosted by the first best pair of twins |
0:46.3 | in podcasting that's right we were separated a birth we're actually identical twins and we're |
0:51.6 | both portrayed by Rachel vice I would love to be doing a podcast with Rachel vice right now |
0:57.3 | you are nothing I'd rather be doing than a podcast with Rachel vice right now you are actually |
1:01.8 | Rachel vice I don't know I'm a little more scared of her after having seen season one |
1:06.4 | episode one of the Amazon prime television program dead ringers this is ostensibly an |
1:13.9 | adaptation of the 1988 David Kronenberg film dead ringers starring Jeremy Irons yeah and it's |
1:20.0 | another one of those situations where like dead ringers is a movie that was not a huge hit |
1:25.1 | no critically it did well it as far as like body horror goes like Kronenberg does put some |
1:31.7 | body horror in it but it's not like besides like one scene it's not like Kronenberg monster people |
1:38.4 | I was I was saying like knowing that it was Kronenberg every time something a little off was |
1:42.4 | happening I was like oh don't be crazy where's the monster first coming yeah it is one of his |
1:49.4 | relatively more down to earth movies and he is not involved with this whatsoever this is |
1:55.1 | uh being showrun by Alice Birch who did the Sally Rooney adaptations uh normal people and |
2:02.1 | conversations uh with friends okay and now it is one of those weird uh mini series where it's like |
2:12.1 | nobody asked for a dead ringers mini series starring Rachel vice is the mantle twins |
2:17.1 | but now that we've got it I gotta say I'm loving it it does feel like the end of the sort of |
2:24.2 | zero interest rate all streaming service war where every service is just dumping like hundreds |
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