It's the final pod of 2024, looking back on the very best the TV had to offer. Luke and Dawn join Matt to count their personal Top 10's of the year whilst also counting down the favourites of the wider Custard TV team. Expect discussions on Slow Horses, Mr & Mrs...
When the second series of Bad Sisters was announced, it seemed impossible that the second would match the first. Evil JP was such a ruthless and relentless presence, how could they possibly fill the huge void that character would leave? Answer, Ian Riley/Cormac...
Television in 2024 felt different. Things slowed down. You could feel broadcasters and streaming platforms straining to deliver the volume of shows we've been accustomed to and the heavy reliance on making shows out 'existing IP' made a lot of the output feel lazy,...
Last week, The Wagon (Fiona Shaw's Angelica) was hit by a boom on a boat and sent overboard. As the Garvey's worry they might 'go down' for murder, the show itself is spinning so many plates. Is Angelica dead? Is Ian (the new man in all their lives) as kind as he...
On a recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Sharon Horgan explained the meanings of some of the Irish phrases used in the show. Specifically, Wagon, which is used constantly to refer to Angelica. It means "a woman who is not very nice" or more...
We're now halfway through this second series of Bad Sisters and no closer to finding out what the sisters had in the boot of that car that Eva (Sharon Horgan) was struggling to control. Something heavy wrapped in a blanket, which they were keen but nervous to dispose...
In a recent interview, Bad Sister star and writer Sharon Horgan explained her decision to kill off Grace (Anne Marie Duff) "I had to break them in order to build them up" The bold move gives this second series a completely different feel and higher stakes. Now, the...
*This post contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Series 2 of Bad Sisters which are now available on Apple TV+* It’s been two years since Bad Sisters ended, and we learned what happened to John Paul—the number one mummy’s boy. It's also been two years since...
Matt and Dawn are back to review four new shows available this week. It's a very Apple TV+ heavy week with the return of The Garvey sisters in Sharon Horgan's brilliantly dark comedy Bad Sisters. There were questions about whether we needed a second series of this...
Apple TV+ has set Wednesday, 13th November, for the Season 2 premiere of Sharon Horgan‘s dark murder-mystery series Bad Sisters. The new season will launch with two episodes, followed by one episode weekly, every Wednesday concluding on Christmas Day. ...
When it came time to compile our Best of the Year piece two things struck me. The first was that wasn't one BIG show that resonated with people in the same way Normal People and I May Destroy You did in 2020 or It's a Sin and Mare of Easttown last year. The second was...
An all-female central cast, a tricksy timeline narrative involving the abusive husband of one of the characters being murdered, all of which is set in a middle-class community where everyone knows each other’s name and secrets are hard to keep. On paper, this might...
Sharon Horgan’s first series for Apple TV+, an adaptation of the Belgian version of Clan, will be titled Bad Sisters. Horgan will co-write and co-exec and star in the ten-part darkly comic series. Also confirmed are Anne-Marie Duff (Shameless, The Sailsbury...
Cinemax, Strike Back’s American broadcaster, has teamed up with Hollywood director and screenwriter Steven Soderbergh (Behind the Candelabra, Magic Mike, and Ocean’s Eleven) for a ten-part early 20th century medical drama entitled The Knick. Steven Soderbergh...