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Positive:
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Critic Reviews
Radio TimesNov 13, 2024
Aug 19, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It will be of little surprise from a Horgan project that the series’ women are written incredibly well and portrayed with humor and heart—the excellent cast shines in individual scenes and when they are together. But Claes Bang is also phenomenal as a man you not only want to see murdered, you’d like to do it with your own bare hands.
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Aug 15, 2022
Season 1 Review:
We love spending time with the Garvey sisters and enjoying the exquisite work by Horgan, et. al., and we marvel at Claes Bang’s ability to play one of the most memorably despicable, love-to-hate-him characters in recent memory. This is one of my favorite series of 2022.
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The Daily BeastNov 13, 2024
Season 2 Review:
There are new characters and plenty of fresh plot machinations, but we’re once again faced with a group of wonderful women trying to navigate the aftermath of a murder. That doesn’t make things less entertaining, but it’s a bit frustrating that despite some promise of breaking form, Season 2 feels largely familiar. Still, the reason Season 1 worked so well is the Garvey sisters, and they’re every bit as magnetic this time around.
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Nov 13, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Bad Sisters continues to be a fun show to watch because all five actors playing the Garvey sisters have great chemistry with each other and look like they’re having fun with this dark comedy. It also helps that Horgan and company continue to write smart dialogue for them. We just hope the second season story keeps the focus on the sisters and their lives.
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The TimesNov 13, 2024
Season 2 Review:
You don’t find out until much later in the series and it will wrongfoot you again. It then takes us back in time to discover what happened and is at turns funny, sad, bleak and funny again. Horgan, again, shows she has the best comedy chops and can write simultaneous light and dark beautifully.
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Aug 19, 2022
Aug 19, 2022
Aug 18, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Twists that keep various mysteries alive throughout a 10-episode series (one that probably should’ve run just six or eight) can vary in believability. At one point, the show turns a corner from darkly comic to full-on macabre and nearly goes off the rails. When we get to the finale, it doesn’t come as much of a surprise. And yet, I never stopped having fun.
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Aug 16, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Danish master of pitch Bang and the finest Irish cast this side of “Normal People” create vivid personalities snarled in believable relationships, aided by chewy dialog, eye-catching blocking and a killer soundtrack of murder ballads. Every wacky, excruciating predicament the Garveys get themselves into seems as natural as fraught family gatherings around their upscale kitchen tables.
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The PlaylistAug 11, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It’s a good show, and an impressive entry into Horgan’s filmography, which by now includes a number of stories about thorny, complex family dynamics. It offers gutsy humor, great performances, and a deeply interesting premise about the persistent, inexplicable success of terrible men and the strength and savvy of the women who put up with them – until they don’t.
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Nov 13, 2024
Season 2 Review:
A shocking death early on promises to push the Garveys to new places, but ultimately puts “Bad Sisters” back in the same register of dancing around someone’s fateful demise. To the season’s credit, new characters inject some of the energy the primary story does not.
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Nov 13, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Although this new season is two episodes shorter than the first, it feels decidedly longer and less hooky, sagging for a stretch of episodes that leads up to its admittedly fantastic finale, the aptly titled “Cliff Hanger.” .... But luckily, these new episodes have a new secret weapon: the phenomenal Irish actor Fiona Shaw, the season’s clear MVP.
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The TelegraphAug 18, 2022
Aug 16, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Bad Sisters is never boring. With so many moving parts, there’s always some fresh detail to be unearthed in flashbacks or some new scheme for the characters to cook up and execute. ... Yet in the seven hours sent to critics, Bad Sisters feels slightly less than the sum of its parts.
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Nov 13, 2024
Season 2 Review:
When the Garveys are together, the show still shines. But as subplots involving romance, grief, guilt, patriarchy, religion, and police corruption increasingly take center stage — and increasingly separate the sisters from one another — the show starts to feel like it’s on the verge of coming apart at the seams. It just about hangs on, but it’s a choppy ride into uncharted waters.
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