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Dr. Death (2021), Season 2 is the crime drama you can watch online on iFILM — eight episodes that drop the Dallas neurosurgeon entirely and hand the anthology a new villain: Paolo Macchiarini, the Italian "Miracle Man" famous for implanting artificial windpipes.
This run braids two timelines. In one, journalist Benita Alexander pitches a story on the celebrated surgeon and falls for him before she understands what she's walking into. In the other, doctors in Sweden, Belgium and Russia keep watching Macchiarini's "breakthrough" patients deteriorate and die, while the animal trials he claims to have run turn out to be fiction. Gamelli, Svensson and Lasbrey choose to blow the whistle and lose their standing for it. Benita, meanwhile, starts pulling at the seams of every promise Paolo made her.
Where the first season tracked one con, this one runs two at once — the patients on the table and the woman being lied to in her own kitchen. Based on a true story and the Wondery podcast. Stream Dr. Death Season 2 online on iFILM.
8 episodes
S2·E1Like Magic
In 2012, Dr. Macchiarini performs a breakthrough thoracic surgery, but some colleagues in Sweden question his science. In the present, Macchiarini operates on Hannah and becomes romantically involved with Benita, a news producer covering the surgery.
S2·E2Worth the Risk
In 2012, Macchiarini’s research gets published after his patient in Sweden is asymptomatic two months post-surgery. In the present, Hannah suffers complications. Paolo and Benita grow closer. Paolo seeks new patients to expand his practice.
S2·E3The Horizon
In 2012 Stockholm, another Dr. Macchiarini surgery ends tragically. In the present, Benita meets Paolo’s parents and decides to investigate his background before moving with him to Barcelona.
S2·E4Tarantela Telaraña
In the past, doctors in Sweden and Belgium suspect that Dr. Macchiarini is not running animal trials and is instead experimenting on people. Benita realizes Paolo’s promises are lies and uncovers dark secrets from his past.
S2·E5191
Yesim, a young Turkish woman, travels to Sweden for a consultation and ends up on Dr. Macchiarini’s operating table. Dr. Gamelli fights to keep Yesim alive and forcefully raises concerns about Macchiarini’s procedure.
S2·E6The Fog
In Russia, Macchiarini is set to perform elective surgery on the wife of an oligarch, but Dr. Lasbrey convinces her to postpone it. Benita realizes Paolo’s lies go deeper than she thought. Ana returns to Sweden and confirms her suspicions.
S2·E7Compassionate Uses
Doctors Gamelli, Svensson and Lasbrey blow the whistle on Macchiarini but face the consequences. In Russia, Paolo convinces Yulia to go through with the surgery. Benita struggles to tell her story.
S2·E8Surgeons, Bachelors and Butchers
The doctors in Sweden defend their findings to the Karolinska board, and their report leaks to the press. Benita’s colleague publishes the story of Paolo’s deception and misconduct. Swedish authorities make a decision about Macchiarini’s case.
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