Amazon Studios Dead Ringers Ending Explained- What Happened To Elliot And Beverly And What Was Greta Doing

Codependency is dangerous. Amazon Studios’ limited series Dead Ringers, a reimagining of David Cronenberg’s feature masterpiece, somehow takes the spirit of the original and infuses new, even more, creepy storytelling. This time, Rachel Weisz plays the twisted twins in an amazing and unexpected turn. She channels every ice princess, brittle viper, and insecure beta that waits to strike or shrink depending on the circumstance.

Gender-swapping the twin gynecologists played by a placidly deceptive Jeremy Irons in the movie was an incredible choice for many reasons. First, Weisz deftly handles double duty with wild abandon. She is Elliot, the emotional, calculating party girl high on alcohol and drug, desperate to fill a void by controlling others. She is also Beverly, the softer, more compassionate, and insecure twin. Both women are brilliant but deeply damaged, and Weisz can showcase her immense talent playing them.

The second reason the gender swap works so well is it allows the themes of pregnancy, womanhood, and motherhood to be explored more intimately than in the original. The opening is shocking and gruesome but entirely natural. Birth is a grisly and beautiful process, and everything that comes with women’s health is often invasive, uncomfortable, and shameful. Dead Ringers wants you to think about what it really means to be a woman for good and bad.

We first meet Beverly and Elliot Mantle(Rachel Weisz) on the precipice of getting everything they have ever wanted. An investor is considering funding bespoke birth centers and labs for the rich and connected to create the babies and the births they always wanted. As the series progresses and their centers get built, Beverly falls in love with Genevieve, a beautiful movie star, and finally becomes pregnant after several miscarriages. They should have it all, but Elliot’s destructive behavior, their sick relationship, and mental illness encroach. Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers ends with the twins dead, but Weisz’s sisters get a different but no less impactful ending. Here’s everything you need to know about the ending of Dead Ringers, which twin lived, does Parker know, and what Greta was doing.

The ending of Dead Ringers explained

Throughout the series, we see one of the twins meeting with a bereavement group mourning the loss of her sister. We assumed it was Beverly grieving Elliot. When a high-profile patient had her bladder knocked by Elliot during a high-risk birth, all of her bad behavior came out. A disgraced but accomplished writer Silas was hired to write a publicity piece about the twins shortly before and was unfortunately present for the accident. Because of Elliot’s substance abuse, she told Silas more than she should about her risky behavior and what she thought had been a hallucination. Elliot pushed a homeless woman named Agnes off of her balcony earlier in the series but couldn’t find the body and, as a result, thought she hallucinated it. Unfortunately, the woman was found months later.

Once Silas started looking into Elliot’s story, he realized it really happened, and Elliot was a murderer. The Mantle’s benefactors gave Beverly a choice: bury her sister and save her life, career, and Genevieve and Tom, or burn it all down and side with Elliot. She chose her preservation, but it came at a terrible price. Beverly wasn’t happy without her sister. She saw her in every brunette woman, and her phone buzzed incessantly. Beverly needed her as much as the air she breathed and devised a plan for Elliot to take her place.

Elliot sedated her, cut into her belly, and then stitched it up, making it appear she had a C-section. She then removed Beverly’s babies and carried them out of the lab and down the stair of the center, where she was found and helped. Parker and her wife were sitting in the recovery room when she came too and asked her what had happened. She claims to be Beverly, and they act as if they believe her, but the cunning Parker, who said Elliot was always her favorite, allows her to deny an examination, likely because she knows what happened and helped clean up the mess. It would be virtually impossible for anyone to believe Elliot carried twins, especially considering a very pregnant Beverly was lying in a pool of blood in another room.

Someone had to help her clean this up, and Parker was the best person for the job. She was connected, wealthy beyond belief, and ruthless. Dead Ringers Episode 6 ends with Genevieve and Beverly(really Elliot) in the park with their adorable babies. A woman from Beverly’s bereavement group approaches her, but because Beverly never told her she was going to this meeting, she doesn’t recognize her. She is shocked to learn that Beverly has been attending the group for years. Beverly has been depressed and looking for a way out of her life for a long time.

She knew she needed to break away from her, and when she finally did for Genevieve, she wasn’t any happier. This is why she agreed to die and let Elliot assume her life. Beverly has always felt as if she was half of one person. She couldn’t be happy without Elliot. Her false memory of drowning as a child and inability to find Elliot symbolizes being separated at birth. It is Beverly’s way of telling Elliot she has thought about dying and allowing her sister to continue for a long time. In the final shot, Elliot, having fully assumed her life as Beverly, is at a bereavement meeting, mourning the loss of her sister. It was a full-circle moment that was inevitable.

What was Greta doing with the Mantle’s stolen items?

We watched as Greta, the twins’ assistant, stole personal items from the women. She took everything from razors to used tampons. She also intercepted messages from their mother and compiled them into one larger recording. While at first, it appeared she was some stalker who had become obsessed with the twins, the truth was sadder and oddly more hopeful. Greta was an artist, and she had used all of the twins’ things as part of an installation mourning the loss of her mother, who died in childbirth. What better people to use their discarded trash than two women who supposedly devoted their lives to women’s health?

Had Greta’s mother had treatment like that provided at the Mantle Center, she might still be alive today, but I understand her desire to stay away from doctors and the hospital. Earlier in the series, a woman delivered a stillborn child because she was too afraid of doctors. Something does need to be done to address women’s care. As uncomfortable as it is to watch, it’s essential to understand how aggressive and invasive almost every procedure is. Greta’s cathartic art brought her father together. Maybe Amazon’s Dead Ringers can help change how reproductive care is viewed.

Now Elliot, a Super Freak indeed, is running the show. She hasn’t shown much restraint thus far. Will she be able to fool Genevieve forever? Can she keep her destructive impulses under control? Isn’t anyone going to notice her extreme weight loss and lack of delivery skills? I also wonder what will happen to the two babies growing in the artificial uteruses. Was Beverly a sympathetic hero who wanted to change how women get healthcare? Is she a white-guilt savior searching for absolution and meaning in helping the disadvantaged? Probably both are true. Maybe it is best not to think about things too hard. The one thing we know for sure is that it is some seriously Tainted Love.