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Bad Sisters

Bad Sisters

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  • United States,
  • Belgium,
  • United Kingdom,
  • Ireland
  • 2022
  • · 1 season
  • · 52m

Creator Sharon Horgan
Cast Sharon Horgan, Anne-Marie Duff, Eva Birthistle, Sarah Greene, Eve Hewson, Claes Bang
Genre Comedy, Crime, Drama

The sudden death of an abusive brother-in-law named John Paul tests the seemingly unbreakable bond between the five Garvey sisters as they undergo an investigation by an insurance agent who suspects that foul play is at hand. With each sister secretly having a legitimate reason to have murdered John Paul, it's only a matter of time before one or all of them run into legal trouble.

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What are critics saying?

100

The Independent by Amanda Whiting

The sharp, chummy world Horgan creates here would make a terrific binge session. Honestly, if it meant I could spend more time in their warmly murderous clutches, I’d watch the Garvey girls go after the Road Runner next.

100

Radio Times by Jess Bacon

The second season exemplifies what Bad Sisters does best: splices the ridiculous joy of life with its bleakest moments. It’s more sombre in tone than the first season, but as fiery, twisted and shocking, which will keep viewers second-guessing throughout.

91

Paste Magazine by Allison Keene

It will be of little surprise from a Horgan project that the series’ women are written incredibly well and portrayed with humor and heart—the excellent cast shines in individual scenes and when they are together. But Claes Bang is also phenomenal as a man you not only want to see murdered, you’d like to do it with your own bare hands.

88

Chicago Sun-Times by Richard Roeper

We love spending time with the Garvey sisters and enjoying the exquisite work by Horgan, et. al., and we marvel at Claes Bang’s ability to play one of the most memorably despicable, love-to-hate-him characters in recent memory. This is one of my favorite series of 2022.

83

The A.V. Club by Lauren Chval

Quibbles aside, the show is a rush of dark wit and fierce familial love.

80

Boston Globe by Matthew Gilbert

All the actors playing the Garvey sisters are excellent, and they make the sometimes prickly, but always loving, five-way family rapport endlessly enjoyable to watch.

80

Time by Judy Berman

Twists that keep various mysteries alive throughout a 10-episode series (one that probably should’ve run just six or eight) can vary in believability. At one point, the show turns a corner from darkly comic to full-on macabre and nearly goes off the rails. When we get to the finale, it doesn’t come as much of a surprise. And yet, I never stopped having fun.

80

The Guardian by Lucy Mangan

Bad Sisters is wonderful. It is also superbly constructed, perfectly paced and brilliantly performed, with Horgan on top form as both writer and actor, surrounded by a cast who don’t put a foot wrong.

80

Empire by Olly Richards

One of Horgan’s best, Bad Sisters manages to be both a clever murder-mystery and a hilarious farcical comedy, played by an absolutely killer cast.

80

i by Emily Baker

Bad Sisters is a brilliantly engaging thriller, with lots of laughs and an unpredictable storyline. While murder is never the answer in the real world, here you won’t be able to stop yourself rooting for whoever you have pegged as the murderer.