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Bad Sisters sounds like it’s a sweary, boozy sitcom about sisters doing rebellious things.
it is.
It’s also a disturbing drama about abuse and murder, set in the moving postcard that is Dublin, Ireland.
This unique hybrid of tones is the result of Apple TV Plus hiring prolific sitcom creator and actor Sharon Horgan (Pulling, Catastrophe). Her effervescent characters are one-part chaos, two-parts charm, three-parts moral gray area.
The fantasi format of the show places us in the aftermath of a murder, then jumps back in time to turn over pieces of the puzzle. It’s both a whodunit and a howdunit.
A man named John Paul Williams (Claes Bang) is the victim of the murder. The show gives pretty strong justification for his demise. Plainly put, John Paul is misogynistic, racist and sexist, traits he barely disguises behind a handsome husband veil.
John Paul is married to Grace Garvey (Anne-Marie Duff), the second-eldest of five Garvey sisters: Eva (Sharon Horgan) is the oldest; Ursula (Eva Birthistle) is the middle child; Bibi (Sarah Greene) is the second-youngest; and Becka (Eve Hewson), known as Baby Becka, is the youngest. Eva and Becka are about 20 years apart, and their mother-daughter dynamic epitomizes the Garvey tribe: at one point Eva jokes she could kill Becka. At another, she’s dropping everything to race to Becka’s side.
Orphaned as children, the sisters form a support network that includes the service of murdering evil husbands. The sisters observe