The place do you go together with a TV present that’s already solved its essential thriller?
This was the most important query I had going into Dangerous Sisters Season 2, the follow-up to Sharon Horgan’s glorious 2022 how-dunnit a couple of household banding collectively to kill their sister’s abusive husband.
Season 2 shortly untangles the neat bow that tied up the present’s first season, and initially it looks like its new path shall be simply as tense and intriguing. Sadly, the momentum does not fairly final. What begins as a robust story turns into patchy within the center, earlier than considerably rescuing itself within the closing episodes.
What’s Dangerous Sisters Season 2 about?
We decide up with the Garvey sisters – Eva (Horgan), Grace (Anne-Marie-Duff), Bibi (Sarah Greene), Becka (Eve Hewson), and Ursula (Eva Birthistle) – in a seemingly happier time. Grace is getting married to new man Ian (Owen McDonnell), and John Paul (Claes Bang) is only a horrible reminiscence. Season 1 tied up the thriller of his demise in a seemingly neat bow, and the household appears to be thriving now he is gone. However in fact, none of that lasts.
Nervous neighbour Roger (Michael Smiley) is the primary thread to unravel, reappearing on the scene along with his pious and meddling sister Angelica (Fiona Shaw) and threatening to disclose what he is aware of about John Paul’s demise to the police. Angelica’s personal suspicions shortly turn out to be aroused, as do these of latest detective Una Houlihan (Thaddea Graham), who’s eager to reopen the case alongside Season 1 detective Fergal Loftus (Barry Ward). All of those occasions conspire to destabilise Grace’s newfound happiness and ship the sisters spiralling again into disaster mode.
Mashable High Tales
Roger and Angelica trigger all kinds of issues in Season 2.
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With out getting into spoiler territory, Dangerous Sisters wanted one thing in Season 2 that will shake up its formulation — and this one thing does certainly come alongside, shortly and brutally.
It looks like a little bit of a danger to absorb the script, but it surely’s one which works. Not less than, till it does not.
Dangerous Sisters Season 2 lacks what made Season 1 so nice
There are various good issues about Dangerous Sisters which are nonetheless there in Season 2. The characters are simply as a lot enjoyable, the mix of drama and black humour is efficient, and the writing is as sharp as ever. The brand new characters, too, carry a contemporary rigidity to the combo, and there are nonetheless loads of twists which are laborious to see coming. If this was a brand new present, I would have been pleasantly stunned.
The issue is, it is not. It is a sequel. Season 1 of Dangerous Sisters was sensible for all the above causes, but in addition due to the plot and central thriller. How precisely did John Paul die? Who killed him? The writing and the characters complemented these driving query, however the questions themselves nonetheless supplied the principle hook. Season 2, regardless of a valiant effort to attempt new issues, does not have this important hook. There are nonetheless unanswered questions, however we do not care in regards to the solutions as a lot.
Dangerous Sisters Season 2 is not at all dangerous, and after a sluggish center issues do decide up once more in the direction of the top. However when in comparison with its first season — and that comparability is inevitable, regardless of how totally different the story is — it could’t fairly measure up.
Dangerous Sisters Season 2 is streaming on Apple TV+ from Nov. 13.
