Although This Is Us bid the world farewell just over a year ago, Mandy Moore has already lined up her next television project. On Tuesday (Nov. 28), Peacock unveiled the official trailer for the second season of Dr. Death, featuring Moore and her Emmy-nominated co-star Édgar Ramírez.
In the ominous trailer, Moore’s Benita Alexander attempts to balance covering Ramírez’s Dr. Paolo Macchiarini — a successful doctor whose current research focuses on transforming 3D-printed organs into functioning body parts — and his dubious experiments while handling her feelings for him. Ramírez’s character is based on the real-life Macchiarini, whose fraudulent research led to a 2022 conviction for causing bodily harm to a patient through a trachea transplant.
Dr. Death made its television debut in 2021 with a season focusing on the malpractice of Christopher Duntsch, led by actors Joshua Jackson, Grace Gummer, Christian Slater, Alec Baldwin and AnnaSophia Robb. The series is a true crime anthology, with both seasons drawing from the Wondery-produced podcast of the same name. “The joy of an anthology series is the freedom to explore variations on a theme,” mused season 2 showrunner, executive producer and writer Ashley Michel Hoban in a statement. “Dr. Death is a show about systemic failures, and this season, these issues reach a global scale.”
All eight episodes of Dr. Death season 2 will premiere exclusively on Peacock on December 21. A companion documentary titled Dr. Death: Cutthroat Conman will also premiere on the platform on the same day. Moore shared the trailer to her Instagram Story, writing, “Here we go!! Season 2 of #DrDeath coming December 21st on @peacock. It’s a WILD ride that you won’t want to miss.”
The new season of Dr. Death comes a year and a half after the release of In Real Life, Moore’s seventh studio album. The record, which pulled from indie pop and country, peaked at No. 41 on Top Album Sales.
Throughout her career, Moore earned a pair of entries on the Billboard Hot 100: 1999’s “Candy” (No. 41) and 2000’s “I Wanna Be With You” (No. 24). On the Billboard 200, the Emmy-nominated actress has earned eight entries, peaking with 2003’s Coverage (No. 14).
Watch the full trailer for Dr. Death season 2 above.
