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A second season of the show was greenlit in 2022 and finished filming in 2023. This season will star Creator/EdgarRamirez as Paolo Macchiarini, an Italian thoracic surgeon who was discovered to have performed illegal experiments on patients with synthetic tracheas of his own design that turned out to cause fatal rejection, and Creator/MandyMoore as Benita Alexander, an NBC News producer who became romantically involved with Macchiarini only to discover his deceptions regarding his medical practices and their relationship.

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A second season of the show was greenlit in 2022 and finished filming released in 2023. This season will star stars Creator/EdgarRamirez as Paolo Macchiarini, an Italian thoracic surgeon who was discovered to have performed illegal experiments on patients with synthetic tracheas of his own design that turned out to cause fatal rejection, and Creator/MandyMoore as Benita Alexander, an NBC News producer who became romantically involved with Macchiarini only to discover his deceptions regarding his medical practices and their relationship.
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* BodyHorror: The results of Macchiarini's surgeries with the plastic windpipes result invariably in horrible complications. They universally include necrosis of the flesh inside of their airways that made it difficult for any of them to breathe.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Paolo gets off with a slap on the wrist to continue practicing medicine and likely threaten other patients. However, his reputation is in tatters and he will face lawsuits. Meanwhile, Benita, Gamelli, Svensson and Lasbrey are able to find new jobs and move on with their lives, knowing they did the right thing by exposing Paolo's true nature.]]
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* WasItWorthIt: The finale has separate scenes where Svensson, Gamelli and Lasbrey wonder why they should keep fighting when the system is protecting Paolo while Benita likewise asks how she can continue with both parties citing the trope verbatim.

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* WasItWorthIt: WasItReallyWorthIt: The finale has separate scenes where Svensson, Gamelli and Lasbrey wonder why they should keep fighting when the system is protecting Paolo while Benita likewise asks how she can continue with both parties citing the trope verbatim.
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** After Benita publishes her story on Paolo, she can only laugh off some of the comments of "how dumb was she" as she has to admit they have a point.


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* WasItWorthIt: The finale has separate scenes where Svensson, Gamelli and Lasbrey wonder why they should keep fighting when the system is protecting Paolo while Benita likewise asks how she can continue with both parties citing the trope verbatim.

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