plague-of-grackles 😷🍉🐈⬛Just finished “Bad Sisters” on the recommendation of a friend whose recommendations rarely land.
Reader, wut a fucking gem.
While the first season is skillfully adapted from a Belgian show, I think the second is mainly written by the showrunner and star Sharon Horgan. It ratchets up the tension to an uncomfortable level.
The story is fanciful like most. But it does try to address human relationships (the job of fiction) and I think it succeeds.
The acting is fantastic. Fiona Shaw (season 2) is who sold us on it in the first place. She’s among the best living actors. I’ve now seen Eve Hewson excel in three different things (“Behind Her Eyes”, “The Knick”), and she is a stormer. (Her dad can go scratch.) Everyone else turned in a very good performance, with one exception.
The show’s main flaw is that these sisters, most of them still kids when their parents died, are well-to-do, and their wealth isn’t really explained. They have jobs, but lots of free time. But this flaw is pretty common. Affluence in tv shows seems to be a device that allows the writing to focus on the main action rather than the drudgery of working-class life.
Shoutout to the makers of the Rube Goldbergs in the opening credits. I love a Rube Goldberg.
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