The place do you go together with a TV present that’s already solved its important thriller?
This was the most important query I had going into Dangerous Sisters Season 2, the follow-up to Sharon Horgan’s glorious 2022 how-dunnit a couple of household banding collectively to kill their sister’s abusive husband.
Season 2 rapidly untangles the neat bow that tied up the present’s first season, and initially it looks like its new course might be simply as tense and intriguing. Sadly, the momentum does not fairly final. What begins as a robust story turns into patchy within the center, earlier than considerably rescuing itself within the closing episodes.
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What’s Dangerous Sisters Season 2 about?
We decide up with the Garvey sisters – Eva (Horgan), Grace (Anne-Marie-Duff), Bibi (Sarah Greene), Becka (Eve Hewson), and Ursula (Eva Birthistle) – in a seemingly happier time. Grace is getting married to new man Ian (Owen McDonnell), and John Paul (Claes Bang) is only a horrible reminiscence. Season 1 tied up the thriller of his demise in a seemingly neat bow, and the household appears to be thriving now he is gone. However in fact, none of that lasts.
Nervous neighbour Roger (Michael Smiley) is the primary thread to unravel, reappearing on the scene together with his pious and meddling sister Angelica (Fiona Shaw) and threatening to disclose what he is aware of about John Paul’s demise to the police. Angelica’s personal suspicions rapidly grow to be aroused, as do these of recent detective Una Houlihan (Thaddea Graham), who’s eager to reopen the case alongside Season 1 detective Fergal Loftus (Barry Ward). All of those occasions conspire to destabilise Grace’s newfound happiness and ship the sisters spiralling again into disaster mode.
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Roger and Angelica trigger all kinds of issues in Season 2.
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With out getting into spoiler territory, Dangerous Sisters wanted one thing in Season 2 that may shake up its components — and this one thing does certainly come alongside, rapidly and brutally.
It looks like a little bit of a threat to absorb the script, nevertheless it’s one which works. No less than, till it does not.
Dangerous Sisters Season 2 lacks what made Season 1 so nice
There are lots of good issues about Dangerous Sisters which might be nonetheless there in Season 2. The characters are simply as a lot enjoyable, the mix of drama and black humour is efficient, and the writing is as sharp as ever. The brand new characters, too, carry a recent rigidity to the combo, and there are nonetheless loads of twists which might be onerous to see coming. If this was a brand new present, I might have been pleasantly shocked.
The issue is, it isn’t. It is a sequel. Season 1 of Dangerous Sisters was good for all the above causes, but in addition due to the plot and central thriller. How precisely did John Paul die? Who killed him? The writing and the characters complemented these driving query, however the questions themselves nonetheless offered the primary hook. Season 2, regardless of a valiant effort to strive new issues, does not have this significant hook. There are nonetheless unanswered questions, however we do not care in regards to the solutions as a lot.
Dangerous Sisters Season 2 is in no way unhealthy, and after a sluggish center issues do decide up once more in the direction of the tip. However when in comparison with its first season — and that comparability is inevitable, regardless of how completely different the story is — it could’t fairly measure up.
Dangerous Sisters Season 2 is streaming on Apple TV+ from Nov. 13.
