"Bad Sisters."

Yes, after a minute, the AppleTV+ series gets the Two Episode Test.

Who or what is it that tells us not to do something? A critic? A friend? Yelp? A snarky comment online? A friend with unreliable taste?

Think of all the wicked influences in our lives (well, you know, except the really high quality critics of value — I mean, I’m told those preciously few are a valuable research that shouldn’t be besmirched) and you can find someone to blame.

Everybody else? Well, dubious is a good word. We should all use it more.

So somewhere along the line I either heard or read that “Bad Sisters” was not a thing I would be interested in. Or did I? Would you go up on a witness stand with your Swiss-cheese memory? Your extremely fallible recollection? I certainly wouldn’t. I bet you wouldn’t, either. You might put someone away with all that fog in your brain.

Which is to say I’m not exactly sure, if pressed, how my mind said, “skip” or “pass” or “oh, gods no” when I thought about watching “Bad Sisters” when it came out in — thinks back in memory, blanks, looks it up — oh, wow, summer of 2022.

Well, I was quite busy then. Hell, look at the archives. Busy, busy, busy.

Oh, bollocks (as some people say), why in the world would I apologize for not getting to one of many thousands of television series available to me? I might as well apologize for not having finished “Sapiens,” (it’s a book; duh, one which I very much intend to finish, just after I remember where I was when I started it and I have enough time to sit down and stay focused).

Besides (he says, being coy yet again), forgetting/not hearing about/not having enough time/not subscribing to a particular streamer/and maybe not caring to start any number of shows is why this Substack exists in the first place.

And even more important — the show was enthusiastically brought up on our last Thread here, which contains a goldmine of information and suggestions. While many series received multiple touts from readers who had watched and loved those series, “Bad Sisters” stuck with me as a suggestion because I literally could not remember why I hadn’t started it, especially since I love Sharon Horgan dearly.

So I watched. Let’s get to it.

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