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...
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...
What to say if you liked it A sumptuous, delightful contemporary adaptation of one of the Bard’s best plays. What to say if you didn’t like it A parasitic 90 minutes which brought to mind the image of a grotesquely obese TV producer, growing ever more bulbous as he...