How ’Bad Sisters,’ ‘The Diplomat’ Shot in Tourist Landmarks for Maximum Effect
variety.comTodd Longwell The locations featured in this year’s batch of shows featuring Emmy-nominated actresses can be viewed in simple terms as diorama boxes or proscenium stages.
They are settings that help define and confine characters, such as the near-future dystopian Republic of Gilead (portrayed by Toronto) or — as with the Sicilian resort setting for Season 2 of HBO’s “The White Lotus” — and give them the space explore their truer selves in ways that are alternately freeing and tragic.
In Apple TV+’s “Bad Sisters,” for which Sharon Horgan landed a lead actress nom, it’s a lot of both. A black comedy-drama about five sisters mixed up in a murder plot to kill one of their husbands and a subsequent insurance investigation, the series is set in a contemporary seaside suburban Dublin milieu.
The location is galaxies away from the macho blarney in director John Ford’s 1952 classic “The Quiet Man” that many filmgoers take for the authentic Ireland.
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