In the engaging Apple TV+ miniseries "Bad Sisters," closely adapted by Sharon Horgan ("Catastrophe") from the Belgian series "Clan" and set in and around Dublin, four sisters set out to liberate a fifth from the husband who is destroying her. That the husband begins the series in a coffin, before the story jumps back in time, suggests that they have succeeded, though questions will remain until the last of the series' eight episodes.
It's a comedy, mostly.
Horgan plays Eva Garvey, who took charge of her siblings after the untimely death of their parents; she and her sisters are colorfully distinct, and yet they seem truly related, unusually close if sometimes at odds. (As the closest families often are.) Besides the fragile Grace (Anne-Marie Duff), whose husband, and above-mentioned corpse, John Paul (Claes Bang), is grinding her down to nothing, there is Ursula (Eva Birthistle), a nurse and mother of four, somehow managing an adulterous affair with her photography teacher; angry Bibi (Sarah Greene), who lost an eye in an accident the details of which will become significant; and bright-eyed Becka (Eve Hewson), the baby, a massage therapist, who has a history of ill-advised relationships, but considerable life force. Each has an additional motive for wanting John Paul dead.
