Dr. Death has two things going for it: great acting and an interesting and alarming true story. However, the structure of the storytelling is a bit wonky. First, the pacing is off. It draws you in quickly, but drags in the middle as it gives the titular character's backstory. Second, it's constantly jumping between multiple time periods, so the order of events isn't always clear despite it giving dates and locations. Still, it's fairly gripping, so much so that it pushes you to Google the actual events as soon as the show ends to learn more. That's a success.