"Bad Sisters" Eye for an Eye (TV Episode 2022) Poster

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10/10
An Eye for Eye??..
moviesfilmsreviewsinc20 October 2022
In episode 5 of Bad Sisters, Tom and Matt pay a visit to Bibi and ask her about an incident involving JP. Bibi reveals that two car crashes have had great significance in her life. In one, her parents died. In another-with John Paul-she lost her eye. Of course, the insurance agents are automatically suspicious of her, but Bibi insists she didn't blame John Paul for the accident. At that point, Bibi's wife Nora comes in with Becka. Not realizing how incriminating her words are, Nora talks about how John Paul ruined Bibi's life. After Tom and Matt leave, Bibi makes Becka swear to stop seeing Matt. At Tom's place, his pregnant and bedridden wife asks Matt to help her get to the bottom of the Garvey case. She can't stand how stressed Tom is about it. So, she directs Matt to where Tom's files are so he can do some snooping for her. It's nice to finally receive the context to Bibi's story. She maybe hates John Paul the most intensely, and it's easy now to see why. Hopefully, Bad Sisters will continue to wrestle with themes of revenge vs. Justice when it comes to the murder of John Paul. The show also does compelling work in setting up a parallel between Matt and Becka as the younger siblings, consistently kept on the outside. It's no wonder they connect so well to each other, even if their romance is only becoming more complicated. Nothing comes up when Matt searches for John Paul's policy, but he does find something unexpected: a suicide note from his father. When Tom returns, Matt punches him in the face. He confronts him about their father and why Tom let him believe he died from an accidental overdose. Tom admits to Matt that their father never filed their clients' policies. He simply took their money and spent it. If it comes out that Tom covered up his father's actions, he'll go to jail. He even more desperate to avoid paying John Paul's claim than Matt thought. Unable to process all this information, Matt seeks out Becka. They sleep together, despite the knowledge that they are not on the same side. A flashback to the past shows Bibi conspiring to kill John Paul during a paintball event for his birthday party. She mentions wanting to shoot the hole in his head that resulted from the crash. Meanwhile, Roger is frustrated that Oscar (aka John Paul) keeps messaging him inappropriately. Grace, motivated by Blánaid, signs up for dance class. Right after she leaves, John Paul tortures their cat by spraying it with water, causing it to run into the street and be run over. JP leaves the animal in the street, telling no one about what happened.

A nervous Grace runs out of her dance class way before it ends. When she returns, she thinks she's run over the cat. Blánaid blames her, and John Paul doesn't correct either of them.
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4/10
Truly bad people all around
Gretel100620 November 2022
This show is getting really quite annoying. It's annoying how horribly bad JP is. His character should be in a kids cartoon - he's just that clownishly evil. And the sisters are absurdly bad at trying to kill him. I've started to roll my eyes at each of their new plots because it's obviously going to go wrong. How can they be that foolish not to consider different outcomes to their plotting. Now they are not only causing property destruction and animal deaths, but are permanently maiming innocent people.

I feel for the sisters and it's easy to empathize with their desire to rescue Grace from John Paul's clutches, but Grace needs to want out of the relationship for herself.

Even when setting aside the mayhem the sisters are causing through their failed murder attempts, they're not very likable ladies, maybe accept for Eva.

I wish there was more black humor/comedy surrounding the botched murder attempts. That might have balanced out some of the despicableness of all people involved.

I am ending on episode 5. I do hope the final way in which JP actually died was humorous - like a total freak accident that had nothing to do with the sisters or that Grace killed him, something like that.
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