Kate Feldman13:32, Jul 21 2021
Dr. Death begins streaming on TVNZ OnDemand at midday on July 23.
Dr. Christopher Duntsch was either a serial killer, sociopath or dangerously incompetent. Or all three. From the moment showrunner Patrick Macmanus began writing
Dr. Death, the mini-series that debuts on TVNZ OnDemand on July 23 – based on a Wondery true crime podcast on the spine surgeon’s downfall – he knew one thing: It’s impossible to know why Duntsch destroyed so many lives. “It would be easy to toss a black hat on the guy and call it a day because it would make us feel better to be able to just say he was a psychopath,” Macmanus says. “But the truth of the character is he was more complex. He was a product of his nature, being born, I believe, a narcissistic sociopath, having that nature nurtured throughout his upbringing and then having it blow up into a full conflagration when he actually began to operate and people were telling him how good he was.”
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Dr. Death.
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Midway through Peacock’s new eight-part show
Dr. Death, Dallas County assistant district attorney Michelle Shughart (AnnaSophia Robb) tries to wrap her mind around one of Texas’s most horrifying malpractice cases. It’s 2012, and for two years spine surgeon Dr. Christopher Duntsch has been cutting his way across North Texas operating rooms, injuring, paralyzing, and occasionally killing his patients in surgeries of such staggering ineptitude that, as one assisting nurse describes to a doctor, “It was like he learned what to do just so he could do the opposite.”
Shughart and the show as a whole wants to answer a big question: was Duntsch alone at fault for maiming, and in some cases killing, 33 people? She tells doctors Randall Kirby (Christian Slater) and Bob Henderson (Alec Baldwin), who have lobbied hard for, and are now assisting, her criminal investigation: “I’m going to tell a jury both that Christopher Duntsch is so, so bad