'Bad Sisters' is a wickedly funny crime dramedy with 'Big Little Lies' energy
Claes Bang and Anne-Marie Duff in 'Bad Sisters'Premiering with a two-episode drop on Aug. 19, the show opens on the day of JP’s funeral. As Grace and the couple’s tween daughter Blánaid mourn, the other Garvey sisters, who range in age from 30ish to 40-something, slink around the wake drinking, speaking ill of the dead, and looking over their shoulders.
Their amateur investigation splits the plot into two timelines. As the Garvey girls endure Tom and Matt’s questioning in the present, flashbacks trace the lead-up to JP’s death. The women come into focus one by one. Eva , the eldest, gave up her youth to care for her sisters after their parents’ death; now she’s a single career woman haunted by her inability to conceive children of her own.
What we don’t find out, as we’re getting to know the Garveys, are the details of JP’s demise. By withholding them,, creates multiple sources of suspense. We don’t know if the sisters will successfully get the Claffins off their backs, but we also don’t know whether one or more of them is actually the killer, or if the whole thing really was an accident. We also don’t know, at first, what each woman isn’t telling the others.
Every performance is strong, but it’s the love and grit that Horgan, Hewson, and Duff radiate that bring warmth to what might otherwise have been a bloodless thriller. In a role that echoes his fellow Scandinavian and
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