It’s been two years since audiences had been launched to the Garvey sisters in Apple’s “Unhealthy Sisters,” created by Sharon Horgan, Dave Finkel, and Brett Baer — two years since Eva (Horgan), Ursula (Eva Birthistle), Bibi (Sarah Greene), and Becka (Eve Hewson) conspired to kill their sister Grace’s (Anne-Marie Duff) husband, just for him to show up useless underneath mysterious and unplanned circumstances.
Season 2 premieres November 13 with two episodes, to reply burning questions in addition to to lift new ones. How a lot does Grace’s daughter actually know? How have the sisters healed because the demise of “the prick”? Will the police get entangled this time and truly uncover the homicide? Are Becka and Matt (Daryl McCormack) nonetheless collectively?
However earlier than all that, let’s evaluate the important thing plot factors in “Unhealthy Sisters” Season 1.
The Man
John Paul Williams (Claes Bang), a profitable profession man, father, husband — prick. J.P. wears most of his day-to-day awfulness on his sleeve; informal misogyny, condescension, emotional manipulation, homophobia — hiding all of it behind an oily, nice smile and getting away with treating different individuals like crap.
However because the Garvey sisters plot his homicide, the present reveals deeper, worse layers. We’ll go extra into his particular assaults on Grace’s sisters, however bear in mind when he didn’t just like the neighbor being pleasant with Grace? J.P. known as the police and anonymously accused the person of being a baby molester! After an argument along with his father, J.P. stood by to observe the person choke to demise after which locked him in a freezer for years. After discovering his mom useless in the identical freezer, he took her physique upstairs, thawed it out, and staged it in order that she appeared like she died in her sleep. He’s good, and he’s calculated.
And he’s a prick.
The Methodology
Hlaf of “Unhealthy Sisters” Season 1 recounts the sisters’ failed makes an attempt to kill J.P. Eva and Bibi set fireplace to his cabin, however fail to substantiate that he’s inside. Ursula suggests poisoning his dinner, however he doesn’t find yourself consuming it. Bibi’s plan to shoot him with a frozen pellet goes horribly awry when Becka pushes her, and Becka’s plan to lock J.P. within the freezer along with his father as an alternative results in his mom Minna (Nina Norén) dying whereas locked inside.
However whereas every try shakes the sisters’ confidence, it additionally makes J.P. extra outwardly hostile towards them and everybody else — together with Grace. This finally ends up strengthening their resolve and resilience to try to attempt once more.
The Motives
The place to start? Properly, the present begins with J.P.’s emotional abuse of Grace, as witnessed by their whole household. It’s clear that the wedding has worn Grace right down to a shell of herself, and although she finds pleasure in her daughter and sisters and different elements of life, her confidence is shattered.
The therapy of Grace is what lastly pushes the sisters to pursue homicide, however all of them have particular person private conflicts with J.P. He and Eva work collectively and he beats her out for an enormous promotion, revealing her historical past of habit to the hiring supervisor after which threatening her work pal Gabriel (Assaad Bouab). He methods Ursula into taking and sending an express picture of herself that he makes use of to blackmail her about her affair, which is precise cyber crime. He agrees to mortgage Becka cash, solely to rescind the supply instantly and make Grace inform her the information.
Earlier than the timeline of the present, J.P. gave Bibi a trip in his automobile and commenced to drive erratically, saying caring issues to her in an objectively sinister tone of voice whereas dashing alongside by the rain and darkish. The automobile crashes, completely injuring Bibi’s eye — a grudge she claims to not maintain, however she and Eva are the primary to band collectively and begin planning the homicide. Because the Season 1 finale revealed, John Paul raped Eva years in the past, shortly earlier than she had a miscarriage for which she then blamed herself. She by no means informed anybody, however when J.P. lastly tells Grace and tries guilty her sister, Grace snaps. She strangles him within the bed room after which phases the physique to appear like his scarf acquired caught within the wheels whereas driving.
The Cash
Police are scarce in “Unhealthy Sisters”; the true pressure threatening to show the Garvey sisters is Matthew and Thomas Claflin (Brian Gleeson), two brothers and enterprise companions making an attempt to keep away from paying out Grace’s declare to John Paul’s life insurance coverage. It’s difficult sufficient with the brothers’ monetary troubles and sisters’ secrecy, after which Becka and Matt begin seeing one another (and simply can’t cease!). When Matt figures out the reality, Becka virtually kills him, however adjustments her thoughts on the final minute. Grace withdraws the declare, releasing the brothers from their investigation simply in time for the start of Thomas’s son. Every part wraps up with a pleasant little bow… or did it?
“Unhealthy Sisters” Season 2 premieres November 13 on Apple TV+.