It’s not often you find yourself rooting for murderers. But in the creation of the most loathsome on-screen villain of the year, Apple TV+’s dark comedy BadSisters has the viewer wishing for one man’s downfall.
is a wickedly hilarious thriller where the “whodunnit” is easily replaced by “thank goodness someone finally did it”. The first episode opens with the funeral of John Paul , the disgusting and villainous husband of Grace Garvey, one among five supremely close sisters living in Dublin.
While Grace and her pre-teen daughter, Blanaid, mourn the dead, her four sisters, led by the fiercely protective Eva , slump around the wake quietly celebrating and drinking. After their parents’ sudden and untimely death, the sisters become each other’s safe haven, and John Paul threatens this with every breath. The 10-episode dark comedy unfolds as the Claffin brothers, JP’s insurance agents, launch an amateur investigation into his death to avoid paying the $875,000 owed to the widow.
He emotionally and physically abuses his wife and sugarcoats it as love. Every time JP manipulates Grace into devoting her energy to further his agenda, he adds saccharine statements of her being the only true woman among her sisters – an unequivocal red flag. He even has an absolutely repulsive nickname for her, Mammy, that further restricts her identity within the home. With every episode, the creators reveal a different facet of his vile behaviour.
The creators also consciously made John Paul a strident Roman Catholic, possessing the most toxic traits the church propagates including homophobia and anti-abortion. While he thinks of himself as a “soldier against sin”, he rarely looks inward for criticism. John Paul doesn’t show a modicum of remorse for framing his neighbour as a paedophile or blaming his wife for the death of the cat he killed. Horgan also cites the Republican party and Boris Johnson as a reference for JP’s character.
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