Coren's Reviews

By Coren Feldman Bad Sisters   hooks you from the very first scene. As you watch the funeral of John Paul, the husband of the oldest of the five Garvey sisters, it becomes clear that he was killed and one (or more) of them was the culprit. The show jumps between the present, as a life insurance investigation is inquiring into his death, and the past, when the four younger sisters each reach their breaking point and decide to kill him. The Garvey sisters Sharon Horgan, the show's co-creator, had previously written another fantastic show, Catastrophe,  along with Rob Delaney, about an American man who accidentally impregnates an Irish woman and the relationship that's built on it. Horgan is clearly a masterful writer with the ability to write great comedic dialogue, make you empathize with every character and feel invested in every scene. It's those same strengths that makes  Bad Sisters  such a hard show to put down. Between the suspense of waiting for a murder to happen and