Bad Sisters: though it sounds like a particularly mean book by Roald Dahl, in fact it’s a hit TV show by Sharon Horgan, back for a second series. This time around, of course, it lacks Claes Bang – a lack indeed if, like me, your rule of life for the last few years has been that a girl can never have too much Claes Bang (the Danish actor played John Paul aka The Prick, the evil husband of Grace, who was dispatched in series one).
But this isn’t its only problem. The success of the first series, which was based on a 2012 Belgian TV show, was predicated more or less entirely on the fact that we wanted – we longed for – the five Garveys to get away with murder. Now they’ve returned, however, we understand immediately that they’re not, after all, going to be allowed to go scot free. Ghosts and guilt are abroad here, and as a result, the sisters’ rude, slightly mad ebullience is on the run – and with it, a great deal of the audience’s enjoyment.
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