A brilliant ensemble cast makes this darkest of comedy-dramas a hit: Bad Sisters
Major spoilers follow for Bad Sisters' plot. You've been warned. Back in 2019, during a Q&A session at the BFI with Aisling Bea, Bad Sisters creator Sharon Horgan talked about the possibility of making a comedy thriller TV show about a domestic abuse victim. “We’re doing one,” she said. “I’m not saying it’s not a hard sell, it’s a f*****g hard sell for all of the obvious reasons, but it’s storytelling, and sometimes when you’re dealing with a difficult situation, you’re desperately in need of finding humour and laugh within it.” Comedy is not the natural bedfellow of a series about domestic abuse – and murder for that matter – but, true to her word, that’s the ethos behind Horgan’s newest project, Bad Sisters, which arrives on Apple TV Plus on Friday, August 19. Remarkably, she makes it work. Setting the story – adapted by Horgan from the original Belgian series, Clan, written by Malin-Sarah Gozin – in Ireland was a smart touch, as the Irish sense of humour is natu...