'Bad Sisters' Remains Delightfully Naughty in Season 2

In the ensuing years since Bad Sisters’ first season finale, word of mouth has helped buoy the AppleTV+ dramedy to one of TV’s most talked-about shows. I have never recommended the series to anyone who didn’t love it. As the saying goes, it’s good to be bad, and Bad Sisters’ particular brand of dark comedy was a delight. But there was such a finality to the first season. Grace (Anne-Marie Duff) killed her awful husband, JP (Claes Bang), and her sisters, who had been unsuccessful in killing him all season long, helped her cover up her crime.

After a two-year absence, the Garvey sisters are back. When a second season was announced a month after the first one ended, the obvious question was how series creator Sharon Horgan, who stars as Eva Garvey, would pull it off. It’s not like the Garvey sisters could conspire again to commit another crime. Or could they?

The action picks up two years later when Grace is in bed with her kind and loving fiance, Ian (Owen McDonnell). The only problem is that sometimes she tries to strangle him in her sleep, and also, he doesn’t seem to know much about her past. But every relationship has its problems. Her daughter Blainaid (Saise Quinn) is a typical teen who loves and hates her mom all at the same time, but Quinn takes eye-rolling to new heights. Ursula’s (Eva Birthistle) marriage is over, and her job at the hospital is on rocky ground. Bibi (Sarah Greene) and her wife are considering having another baby. No longer with Matt (Daryl McCormack, who returns this season), Becka (Eve Hewson) has a new boyfriend and continues to have the unique ability to muck up her life. As for Eva, she is facing turning 50 and the onset of menopause.