This text has some spoilers for The Higher Sister – if you happen to haven’t watched but, perhaps go do this and are available again? You’ve been warned!
I would like you to imagine me after I say this present may have you hooked throughout the first 5 minutes. It wastes no time attending to the plot (very grateful for this), and the storytelling is so compelling, you’re left wanting extra. No critically, every episode appears to finish on a cliffhanger and you’ll’t assist however surprise what occurs subsequent.
Episode one, titled “That’s My Sister”, introduces the plot of the collection with Adam’s demise throughout the first couple of minutes. We then get a flashback to earlier that day: Chloe is an creator and editor-in-chief of {a magazine} referred to as The Actual Factor. She’s closing out a gathering, earlier than stepping away along with her son, Ethan, to prepare for the evening’s occasion.
Chloe comes off as somebody who cares greater than she ought to about how she’s perceived within the public. The day after the occasion, she spends the morning studying google alerts along with her identify hooked up – studying articles and the feedback that aren’t so sort. Whereas at one other occasion hosted by Catherine Lancaster, Chloe is glued to her cellphone. The feedback actually get to her, and Adam is nowhere to be discovered. She heads dwelling and that brings us again to the beginning of every thing.
When Chloe will get dwelling, she finds Adam’s physique lined in blood. She’s panicked and calls 911 for assist, however Adam was already useless earlier than assist arrived.
“She’s My Sister” – THE BETTER SISTER, Pictured: Jessica Biel as Chloe Taylor, Kim Dickens as Nancy Guidry, Maxwell Acee Donovan as Ethan Macintosh, and Bobby Naderi as Matt Bowen. Picture: Jojo Whilden/ Prime © 2025 Amazon Content material Companies, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
An investigation begins and Chloe is being interrogated by detectives Nancy Guidry and Matt Bowen. She’s telling them every thing she will recall from the evening, and I imply every thing. There’s some extent the place I used to be like “Chloe, please name a lawyer”. It was after they went to the house and interviewed Ethan with out her current. Ethan is a minor. Due to her lack of sense right here, every thing the detectives gathered make them implicate Ethan for the homicide of his personal father.
Paperwork confirmed that Chloe wasn’t Ethan’s organic mom. His mom is Nicole (or Nicky) Macintosh, Adam’s ex-wife. It will get much more insane although, as a result of it seems, Nicky, is Chloe’s older sister. As a result of Ethan is a minor, he must be together with his authorized guardian which is Nicky (on a technicality since Adam and Chloe by no means made that official).
Chloe and Nicky clearly don’t get alongside. Watching them attempt to come collectively for Ethan was attention-grabbing. It was arduous to see Nicky as a accountable mother or father due to how they painted her in the beginning, however man are we fooled along with her. Sure, she was an alcoholic and drug addict, however rising up the best way she did, I can’t blame her.
We’ll get to that in a bit, however as of now, she’s nonetheless seen because the troubled one who’s incapable of being there for Ethan when that couldn’t be farther from the reality proper now. Due to Chloe’s lack of expertise with the legislation, her permitting the detectives to speak to Ethan alone led to Ethan being arrested for his father’s homicide.
“Lotta Sky” – THE BETTER SISTER, Pictured: Jessica Biel as Chloe Taylor, Kim Dickens as Nancy Guidry, Maxwell Acee Donovan as Ethan Macintosh, and Bobby Naderi as Matt Bowen. Picture: Jojo Whilden/ Prime © 2025 Amazon Content material Companies, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
So many issues began to come back out about Ethan, however your entire time I saved saying to myself I’d be shocked if he was actually the killer. They introduced up a previous incident at his faculty when he was caught with a gun in his backpack. Tabloids have been writing articles about him, portray him to be an offended teenager with a historical past of violence.
Jake helped Chloe with discovering a lawyer for Ethan. Michelle Sanders steps in instantly to get to know Ethan and check out to determine find out how to assist him. I’ll say, it was good on Nicky to name out Chloe for not getting Ethan a lawyer sooner. Detective Guidry and Detective Bowen are going actually arduous to show Ethan did this, however the proof that they had towards him isn’t holding up.
Ethan was denied bail at his listening to which implies he needed to keep locked up whereas ready for trial. Michelle didn’t need any surprises at trial so she asks Chloe how she and Nicky got here to this association the place Ethan would reside along with her and never his mom.
The trial didn’t appear like it was going to go the best way each Chloe and Nicky hoped, however after they took the stand, they launched the truth that Chloe was having an affair with Jake, who additionally labored with Adam. Chloe particulars how abusive Adam was and that Jake had data of this abuse. Jake was additionally referred to as to testify, and when he took the stand he answered all the questions the identical, “I refuse to reply on the grounds that it could incriminate me.” She even asks him immediately if he killed Adam and he repeats the identical.
Main mic drop second for Michelle in Ethan’s protection. The jury discovered Ethan not responsible and he was capable of go dwelling.
“She’s My Sister” – THE BETTER SISTER, Pictured: Kim Dickens as Nancy Guidry and Bobby Naderi as Matt Bowen. Picture: Cara Howe/ Prime © 2025 Amazon Content material Companies, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Episode 4 titled “Gazpacho” is when issues began to get actually attention-grabbing for me. Chloe’s seemingly excellent life is beginning to crumble as every article is launched. Studying what Nicky has endured throughout her childhood (her father making whiskey scorching candies, her father practically sexually assaulting her, her father yelling at her greater than Chloe), it’s no shock she turned out the best way she did.
When Nicky confides in her sister saying “I informed you as a result of I’m uninterested in carrying it alone—”, she immediately begins responsible her for every thing at present going fallacious in her life. No compassion, no consideration for her emotions, only a drawback. It’s very clear that her reminiscence of the occasions have been completely different.
All Nicky wished to do was defend her youthful sister – as they spend extra time collectively, Chloe is beginning to doubt every thing she thought she knew about their childhood. In fact it was completely different for her as a result of her sister made positive of it. Whilst they’re older Nicky continues to guard her. On the finish of episode seven titled “Again from Purple”, after Chloe learns that Adam lied in regards to the sequence of occasions that led to Ethan dwelling with them and Nicky being placed on a psych maintain, she begins to interrupt down. Nicky tried to absolve her saying she gave Ethan an opportunity at a considerably higher life than she might have on the time. That every one modified when Ethan confided in her that Adam was abusing Chloe, and she or he took it upon herself to do what she does greatest, defend her sister. That is once we discovered that it was Nicky who killed Adam.
“Simply Ask” – THE BETTER SISTER, Pictured: Jessica Biel as Chloe Taylor and Elizabeth Banks as Nancy Macintosh. Picture: Jojo Whilden/ Prime © 2025 Amazon Content material Companies, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
All through the collection, I used to be looking for a sister responsible. Part of me was attempting to determine who, between Chloe and Nicky, was the higher sister. Verdict: impasse. There are moments after I’m siding with Nicky, however then Chloe reveals a distinct aspect to her the place I see how a lot she actually does take care of her sister and redeems herself.
I used to be afraid for Nicky when it regarded like Detective Guidry was going to get her method, however fortunately all of it labored in Nicky’s favor. She deserves this second probability at life.
I might speak about this present for days, however I’d like to listen to from you! What’d you consider The Higher Sister? Share your ideas under.