Mandy Moore and Edgar Ramirez on darker ‘Dr. Death’ surgeon in Season 2: ‘Chilling and frightening’
Peacock.The eight-episode series, based on former NBC producer Betina Alexander’s (Moore) popular Wondery podcast, tracks her soured romantic relationship with renowned thoracic surgeon Dr. Paolo Macchiarini (Ramirez), who developed a seemingly revolutionary trachea implant used around the world.The charming, suave, smooth-talking Macchiarini was eventually unmasked by Alexander (and others, in Sweden) as a narcissistic, gaslighting, scientific fraud whose tracheal surgeries killed at least three people, all of whom suffered while he gallivanted around the world leading a double (or triple) life — and promising Alexander the moon and the stars including their being married by his “good friend” … wait for it … Pope Francis.In 2023, he was sentenced by a Swedish court to two-and-a-half years in prison.The series co-stars Luke Kirby, Gustaf Hammarsten and Ashley Madekwe.Moore (“This Is Us”) and Ramirez (“The Assassination of Giannie Versace: American Crime Story”) spoke to The Post about “Dr.