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Bad Sisters sees a clan of female siblings joining together as they do, but this time, for a funeral.
Grace (Anne-Marie Duff – The Salisbury Poisonings) is making sandwiches for the wake, in respect of her 48-year-old husband, John Paul (Claes Bang – Dracula), who’s in a coffin, but he has a huge boner that’s impossible to cover up.
The rest of the group include singleton Eva (Sharon Horgan – COVID19 drama Together), Bibi (Sarah Greene – Roadkill) – who has no right eye for reasons not yet explained, blonde Ursula (Eva Birthistle – Fate: The Winx Saga) and youngest, Becka (Eve Hewson – The Luminaries).
Then we go back to 6 months earlier, at Xmas with presents aplenty, and Eva announcing she’s put herself up for a promotion. Plus, the brilliant Michael Smiley (Free Fire) popping round as Roger, coming to drop off some oysters for a starter, since he is spending the day by himself.
And then back to the present, at the funeral, where Eva states: “Everything bad that can happen, has happened…” at which point the straps holding the weight of the coffin give way, and it falls into the grave.
Everyone seems to live in a massive house regardless of their financial status, so it’s a case of “rich people’s problems”. Plus, the only element of intrigue is with Thomas Claffin (Brian Gleeson – Mother!) and his half brother Matthew (Daryl McCormack), who are calling round regardng John’s life insurance, but also have an interest around his business. However, it’s not particularly intriguing.
What’s the reason for his death, though? That’s what we’re kept in the dark about, for the time being. I’m not sure I’m too fussed.
As an aside, it’s a bit annoying that there’s no subtitles on the preview, since there’s a lot of very strong Northern Irish accents
Based on original Belgian series ‘Clan‘ by: Malin-Sarah Gozin, I might check more episodes out, but quite frankly, one seems to be enough.
Bad Sisters is on Apple TV+ from Friday August 19th, but isn’t yet available to pre-order on Blu-ray or DVD. Two episodes are available at launch. Then the rest are added weekly.
Thanks to our friends at Apple TV+ for the review screener.
Detailed specs:
Cert: 
Running time: 45 mins per episode (6 episodes)
Release date: August 19th 2022
Studio: Apple TV+
Format: 2.00:1
Series Directors: Rebecca Gatward, Josephine Bornebusch, Dearbhla Walsh
Producers: Paul Slavin, Susan Breen
Writers: Brett Baer, Perrie Balthazar, Karen Cogan, Daniel Cullen, Dave Finkel, Sharon Horgan, Paul Howard, Ailbhe Keogan
Based on original Belgian series ‘Clan’ by: Malin-Sarah Gozin
Music: Tim Phillips
Cast:
Grace Williams: Anne-Marie Duff
John Paul Williams: Claes Bang
Ursula Flynn: Eva Birthistle
Eva Garvey: Sharon Horgan
Bibi Garvey: Sarah Greene
Becka Garvey: Eve Hewson
Thomas Claffin: Brian Gleeson
Matthew Claffin: Daryl McCormack
Gabriel: Assaad Bouab
Blánaid Williams: Saise Ní Chuinn
Dr. O’Doul: Paul Tylak
Donal Flynn: Jonjo O’Neill
Nadia: Amy De Bhrún
Nora: Yasmine Akram
Garda: Maeve McGrath
Ruben: Jake Farmer
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