The next article incorporates important spoilers for The Higher Sister. For those who’re not caught up, you’ll be able to take a look at all eight episodes with an Amazon Prime subscription.
Any nice miniseries usually comes right down to what occurs on the finish. The ending wants to stay with viewers, as a result of a miniseries isn’t coming again for one more season. I received that kick within the gullet lately when The Higher Sister wrecked me. So, after I had the possibility to talk with the Amazon showrunners, I knew precisely what to ask.
What Occurs At The Finish Of The Higher Sister
The Higher Sister launched all eight episodes as a part of the 2025 TV schedule lately. The present has already hit residence with the viewers who’ve turned in, and I feel that largely is due to how the collection wraps. Actually, it reveals so much about this household, many years price of abuse and household secrets and techniques which have remained buried solely to be unearthed now.
After I spent a number of episodes questioning what precisely was happening with the look-alike sisters performed by Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel, and it’s revealed that Nicky had killed Adam in self-defense when she went there to confront him about his abuse to Chloe — after one other tense second through which we discovered Adam had set her as much as fail by drugging Nicky’s drink when Ethan was a child, which led to her shedding full custody. Solely Chloe knew the complete fact. Because the case got here to a detailed, it’s the second on the very finish the place the sisters come collectively that’s nonetheless sticking to me.
On the seaside, that they had an extended, heartfelt dialog about every part that had occurred. And as they held one another and fell asleep close to the fireplace, the digicam panned up, and we noticed these two little ladies – the youthful variations of themselves – trying proper again at them, hugging the opposite.
However why was this the massive artistic selection?
Why The Creators Took That ‘Little Lady’ Route As The Higher Sister Wrapped
I do not actually suppose the showrunners must justify the artistic selection, as a result of it is an absolute gut-punch. I did wish to know “why” although, and co-showrunner Olivia Milch informed me it was a testomony to them “carrying” these little ladies with them wherever they go.
I feel we all the time knew that they carried these little ladies inside them. I feel all of us do, proper? We’ve got our little selves inside us, and to have it’s united in that manner. I feel the construction of the storytelling, the construction of the collection itself, is that you’ve got this current timeline and these previous timelines, they usually’re form of separated in type. And we wished a second of unity as a result of we felt that the performances and the work we had completed had been truly uniting these previous and current selves. So we wished to see that visually as properly.
The 2 sisters’ timelines actually painted tales of survival, from Nicky’s expertise with their stepfather that modified every part to Chloe taking up guardianship of Nicky’s son (and extra). To have all of it mixed on this one second after years of resentment, grudges and extra in opposition to the opposite, felt actually stunning.
Fellow showrunner Regina Corrado (identified for her writing on one of many finest FX drama collection’ on the market, Sons of Anarchy) moreover mentioned that it’s one thing you’ll be able to’t actually “get away” from relating to dynamics as adults.
I feel the opposite facet of that’s that you would be able to’t get away from that. You possibly can’t get away from these little selves. You possibly can’t change that. It is nearly like it doesn’t matter what you do, you are all the time these little ladies collectively, and people dynamics are arrange from the start.
Honestly, I couldn’t think about a greater strategy to finish the miniseries. I’m all for a long-winded collection that tends to final seasons upon seasons (suppose The Strolling Useless’s eleven seasons), however while you get a condensed story like this? I’m all for it, and the ending to it capped it off.
Pay attention, I’d actually take pleasure in extra tales from Nicky and Chloe and the way they cope with the aftermaths of this trial – and every part else that was revealed relating to the homicide – however I’m content material with the place The Higher Sister finally landed. There actually isn’t a greater sister, per se – it’s simply two ladies who, even in any case this time and all this heartbreak, would nonetheless danger the world for one another, and that’s stunning.
Now excuse me, as I am nonetheless emotionally reeling and I really feel I’ve to go watch a number of the finest rom-coms to decompress from this.