The latest Wondery podcast to transition to the small screen is
Dr. Death, based on the first season of journalist Laura Beil’s series on deadly doctors and the systems that enable them. Like
Dirty John on sister network Bravo, it looks like Peacock’s
Dr. Death kicks the melodrama up a few or 20 notches, as evidenced by this very
dramatic trailer:
To be fair, Joshua Jackson seems to be giving the sort of on-the-nose performance you’d expect from a series called—pause for impact—
DR. DEATH. Co-starring Alec Baldwin, Kelsey Grammer (yeah it’s that kind of party), Christian Slater (whose previous role in