‘Bad Sisters’ Season 2 Is a Lesser Redux, if Still a Fun Ride: TV Review

variety.com:

Alison Herman TV Critic There’s only a single flash-forward in Season 2 of “Bad Sisters,” and it’s the very first scene. Four of the five Garvey sisters — eldest Eva (Sharon Horgan), nurse Ursula (Eva Birthistle), one-eyed Bibi (Sarah Greene) and baby Becka (Eve Hewson) — are in a car, attempting to dispose of a dead body.

Becka’s face is swollen and bloody; Grace (Anne-Marie Duff), who killed her abusive husband John Paul (Claes Bang) in Season 1, is nowhere to be seen.

The clip is a fairly standard tease by the structural standards of modern television, and the rest of the season proceeds in linear fashion after winding back the clock.

That makes the follow-up to this acclaimed, Emmy-nominated Apple TV+ drama a stark departure from its predecessor. Adapted by Horgan, Dave Finkel and Brett Baer from the Belgian series “Clan,” the first iteration of “Bad Sisters” was split into two parallel timelines: the first in the lead-up to John Paul’s death, as each Garvey gained good reasons to wish their brother-in-law dead, and the second in its wake, as insurance inspectors poked holes in the defensive siblings’ cover stories.