You Most Likely Missed This Bold TV Series Brimming With Impossible Moral Dilemmas
Mary Kills People, starring Caroline Dhavernas, uses its ethical dilemma to drive the narrative, tackling a taboo topic without undermining it.
The quote above, from Mary Kills People, is startling out of context, making it sound like a Dexter-type series with a female lead. But unlike the forensic technician/serial killer from that long-running series (and its new prequel Dexter: Original Sin), Dr. Mary, played by Caroline Dhavernas, isn't a vigilante set on feeding his homicidal urges. Mary is an "angel of death," an ER doctor who works outside the law in an underground hospice off-hours, providing medical aid in dying to the terminally ill who want — and pay for — it. It's a very different, unique, and decidedly controversial angle on its own, let alone basing an entire three-season series around the premise. But Mary Kills People is genuinely surprising in its execution (no pun intended), a series bold enough to challenge the moral dilemma of the act on a weekly basis.
