Bad Sisters: How Do You Kill A Man?

Bad Sisters takes the premise of murder and turns it into a dark comedy at every turn. Throughout the first season, Bibi, Eva, Becka, and Ursula Garvey continually find more reasons to despise their brother-in-law, John Paul Williams.

Although the women love their sister, Grace, none can stand her husband. He is controlling, rude, despicable, and evil in every sense. So it is impossible not to root for the four Garvey sisters when they decide the best thing for Grace would be for J.P to die.

Throughout Bad Sisters, Becka, Eva, Bibi, and Ursula devise plans to kill J.P in the hopes that his death would allow Grace to gain happiness again, something that John Paul steals from her constantly without regret or hesitation. But, if J.P dies, would it be so bad for Grace, who can finally get a chance to breathe again, or their daughter, who could surely grow up without him? And if his death means he can no longer negatively impact the rest of the family, is it that bad?

Bad Sisters creates developed and fleshed-out characters for the central women, giving them justifiable reasons to want J.P dead. It does not take long to understand their motivations and support their endeavors.

However, each episode jumps back and forth through time to keep things interesting. For example, while one timeline portrays the sisters trying to devise a plan and jumping back and forth in questioning whether killing John Paul is the right decision, the second timeline takes place after his death.

In the aftermath of J.P’s death, the Garvey sisters are swarmed by two insurance agents, Matt and Thomas, while Thomas desperately tries to prove John Paul’s death was not an accident to avoid paying out.

Bad Sisters explores the lengths Bibi, Eva, Becka, and Ursula are willing to go to protect Grace but always remembers its tone as a dark comedy. The show portrays the trauma and layered characters as well as their motivations.

By the time the season reaches its finale, it is an edge-of-your-seat moment to understand precisely when and how J.P died and how it looked like an accident. However, the Apple TV+ original series does not hold back in its willingness to portray the difficulties of murder, especially by showing numerous innocent casualties as the family strives to kill their brother-in-law successfully.

However, Bad Sisters also shows the intricacies and warning signs in Grace and John Paul’s toxic and abusive relationship. He is physically abusive toward Grace and shows no signs of remorse.

J.P is verbally abusive toward Grace at every given opportunity, reducing her to nothing and blaming Grace for everything.

Rightfully, the viewers are never given a reason to feel bad for John Paul. On the contrary, at every instance, he proves himself to be the worst human being imaginable, and the sisters determine the best way to save Grace’s life, and their own, is to kill him.

John Paul’s death avoids the chance of Grace siding with him through a trial or waiting for him to be released from prison.

Bad Sisters discusses trauma and the sad resignation the sisters feel in the realization that the only chance they have to save their sister from disappearing completely is to end her husband’s life.

Luckily, the series does not leave the show with a cliffhanger; all massive questions are answered and given a solid resolution.