It’s easy enough to imagine the skeleton of Hulu's new maybe-supernatural thriller The Sisterreconfigured just slightly into a compact B-movie.
With a shorter running time, writer Neil Cross’ featureless protagonist (played by Russell Tovey of HBO'sLooking and Years and Years), director Niall MacCormick’s more-generic-than-aspirin atmospherics and their indifference-inducing twists might’ve seemed less glaring.
But stretched out over four hourlong installments, their tale feels droopy and drab. Initially offered as a Halloween treat on the U.K.’s ITV, The Sister begins with Tovey’s Nathan, a well-to-do, 30-something married man, reeling after a visit on a rainy night by an old acquaintance.
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