Brilliantly acted, written ‘Bad Sisters’ is wildly appealing series

Eve Hewson (from left), Sharon Horgan, Anne-Marie Duff, Eva Birthistle and Sarah Greene star as the impossibly close Garvey sisters at the center of the dark comedy-thriller “Bad Sisters.” (Apple TV+)

One of the liveliest limited series of 2022 begins with a Dead Man’s Coffin.

There’s zero doubt this man is dead so it’s not as if he’s got anything to say, and yet there’s something about the frozen expression on his face — not to mention a certain other detail regarding his post-mortem condition and we’re literally not going to mention it — that tells us he just might have had it coming.