*WARNING — This article contains spoilers for Bad Sisters Season 1*
The Prick is dead — long live Bad Sisters! Oh yes, whilst we may have finally found out how Claes Bang's despicable John Paul met his grisly (and thoroughly well deserved) end at the climax of Bad Sisters Season 1, the story of the Garvey sisters and their killer secret is far from over. Season 2 of Sharon Horgan's whipsmart, blackly comic adaptation of Belgian crime comedy Clan is just around the corner, and the first trailer for the new series sees siblings Eva (Horgan), Becka (Eve Hewson), Bibi (Sarah Greene), Ursula (Eva Birthistle), and Grace (Anne-Marie Duff) all back and trying to protect one another as the police — and Fiona Shaw's newcomer Angelica — close in. Watch it below:
Trying to make a comedy out of a murder-mystery is a tricky enough undertaking as it is; but trying to make one out of a murder-mystery so embedded in a genuinely sickening story of domestic abuse is patently absurd. However, the first season of Bad Sisters saw Horgan and co deftly toe the line between poignant character study and some sort of live-action, Irish Tom & Jerry (with added murderous sisters), building as it went towards a finale that was in turns hilarious, heartbreaking, and shockingly violent. And now, as the new series' trailer shows, it looks like the ante is being upped and the stakes are being raised for the Garveys as the discovery of a body threatens to prove their undoing — just at the moment JP's downtrodden wife Grace seems to have finally found peace with new man Ian (Owen McDonnell), as well.
The official logline for the second season, which is also set to bring Thaddea Graham, Barry Ward, Yasmine Akram, and Jonjo O'Neill aboard alongside the aforementioned Shaw, reads as follows: "Two years after the “accidental death” of Grace’s abusive husband, the close-knit Garvey sisters may have moved on, but when past truths resurface, the ladies are thrust back into the spotlight, suspicions are at an all-time high, lies are told, secrets revealed and the sisters are forced to work out who they can trust."
Daryl McCormack, Michael Smiley, and Saise Quinn are all set to reprise their first season roles this time around, whilst Dearbhla Walsh once again returns to direct all eight new episodes. And we can look forward to finding out whether the Garveys continue to get away with murder when Bad Sisters Season 2 makes its two-episode premiere on Apple TV+ on 13 November. Killer stuff!