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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Bad Sisters

Ruth Becquart in Bad Sisters.

“Bad” may not be a strong enough word to describe the five Garvey sisters. Adapted from a 2012 Belgian series called Clan, this 10-episode Apple+ series revolves around a murder. The black comedy opens with a funeral. It’s for “the Prick,” the smug, manipulating, misogynist husband (Claes Bang) of Grace (Anne-Marie Duff), the sweetest and most supple of the Garvey sisters. The death, it becomes immediately clear, was an inside job. Told through flashbacks and interwoven time lines, the show is anchored by the unstoppable ensemble of Irish sisters—played by Sharon Horgan, Eve Hewson, Sarah Greene, and Eva Birthistle—each of whom has her own reason to murder the Prick. The more the story unspools, the more we not only sympathize with but cheer on the Garveys. —Bridget Arsenault

Photo: The Guardian