‘Bad Sisters’ Cast on [SPOILER] Dying: ‘We Knew it Would be Kind of Shocking and F—ing Awful’

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K.J. Yossman SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers from the Season 1 finale and Season 2 premiere of “Bad Sisters,” now streaming on Apple TV+. “Bad Sisters” was never supposed to return for a second season.

The Sharon Horgan-penned thriller, an adaptation of a Belgian limited series about a group of sisters who attempt to murder their abusive brother-in-law, didn’t obviously lend itself to a returning format.

But the chemistry among the Garvey sisters in the Apple TV+ version — played by Horgan (as Eve), Sarah Greene (as Bibi), Eva Birthistle (as Ursula), Eve Hewson (as Becka) and Anne-Marie Duff (as the abused Grace) — left audiences begging for more.

Horgan, who has written and starred in shows such as “Catastrophe” and “Pulling” (as well as appearing opposite Nicolas Cage in 2022 feature “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent”), admits she had a “germ” of an idea for where the story might go while shooting Season 1, although by the time she got into the Season 2 writers’ room — at Apple’s request following the success of the first season — it “couldn’t have been any more different,” she says. “But I feel [it was] in a way more in line with what I do naturally, because it was less of a crazy formula about attempted murders, and more emotional.