BAD SISTERS Series-Woe to the Bro Who Gets Between Sisters

BAD SISTERS is a dark comedy thriller series screening on Apple TV that should chill husbands who bring bad blood into families and will thrill wives and sisters who wish to take the law in their own hands. The five Garvey sisters construe a bubbling  caldron of emotional commotion toiling through life with devotion to one another.  The head honcho of this harem is Eva (Sharon Hogan, "Catastrophe").  Hogan who co-wrote and co-starred in "Catastrophe" does double duty on BAD SISTERS, as actor and executive producer.  Eva is the sensible, responsible sister, who despises her brother-in-law,  John Paul (Claes Bang) with a passion; for good reason.  He's choking the life out of beloved sister, Grace, and he's overbearing to their daughter.  The other sisters in the Wolfpack are beautiful Becka (daughter of singer Bono), gay Bibi and mother of three, Eva, whose excited by her adultery.  Bibi jauntily wears an eye-patch and has despised JP for a long time.  She's first to hatch a plot to kill John Paul (JP).  JP is a loathsome, self-righteous asshole.  He's contemptuous of Bibi's lifestyle, overly controlling of Grace and threatens to dismantle the close knit sisterly bond.  Bibi approaches Eva who requires a slight prodding to agree "to give nature a little push" by ending JPs life.  The sisters' dastardly plans to do away with JP never run smoothly.  This gruesome gimmick adds humor and allows the sisters time to enlist their other sisters to off their brother-in-law. The reasons for each wanting to kill JP are compelling.  We're rooting for the sisters' success in their murderous quest.  In plot's thickening mayhem are two bumbling, half-brothers.  The brother's life insurance business will go under if they have to pay out on the policy to JP's widow, Grace. The unmarried brother, Matthew (Daryl McCarmack, "Peaky Binder") is not fully on board with his brother's scheming to uncover foul play in JP's death and falling overboard for Garvey sister, Becka.  The timelines reel backwards and forwards causing us to wonder how JP dies and, whose telling lies.  This clever show is set in a charming, seaside Irish town with a warm allure which serves to soften the show's dark side.  The acting by the ensemble cast is winning.   There's an omnipotent appeal from the squabbling, loving sisters who would die for one another, or at least kill for each other.  I recommend this offbeat and beguiling show.  Give your self over to the first few episodes then feel free to skip the lengthy intro with Leonard Cohen's haunting rendition of "Who by Fire," foreboding a macabre mix of murder and wry mishaps.