Bad Sisters

This recap of the Apple TV+ series Bad Sisters season 1, episode 5, “Eye for an Eye,” contains spoilers and plot points.

JP swerved in the tussle and lost control of the vehicle, crashing the car in the process. He has asked to play a special game called ‘shoot the bunny’ and Grace is randomly chosen as the bunny of the game. Bibi is the focus of “Eye for an Eye” and in the opening seconds she has visions of a fatal car crash. When she returns home, Grace believes she ran over the cat and her daughter says that she hates her to her face. Her aim is off and even when she hits the fruit, nothing happens. Bibi tries to play down the incident, saying that she lost her eye and JP gained a hole in his head due to the accident, they’re evens now. There is not the slightest dent in the watermelon at all. Bibi’s parents died in a car crash and she lost her eye in a second. Thomas admits that their father was a crook and a liar, who spent all the business’s money and left them in serious debt. My money was on JP being involved somehow with Bibi’s missing eye and in the fifth episode, the filmmakers explore this tragic plot point in detail. Easily the tensest installment yet as the sisters plan to kill JP on his birthday. The formula might be a tad repetitive now, but this is still a fascinating watch.

It's Bibi Garvey's time to shine this week on Bad Sisters, Apple TV+'s dark, depraved and hilarious comedy. She deals with the insurance investigators and.

Still, none of that gets in the way of how fun and wrenching it is to watch Greene act the scene. So when she maybe blinds a stranger while aiming for John Paul, it’s everything she hates about her life in one pull of the trigger. Ramsay knew that by the time she got around to making this movie (which was released in 2011), the idea of a school shooting wasn’t the taboo thing it once was, and that the cultures fostering such tragedies were getting more depraved all the time. She digs into the inner conflict of Bibi like a wolf into a rabbit. Gabriel (Assaad Bouab) and Eva go on a nice date until they run into an old ex of hers (Frank Laverty) who left her when he found out she was barren. The trouble is, when Bibi gets the paintball gun out to practice, she can’t hit the target from a distance. The climax, wherein she relives the trauma of the accident, is sort of a cheap shot from the writers, but her performance sells it. He panicked, and she hit a dashboard saint with her eye. She starts going on and on about what a miserable bastard John Paul (Claes Bang) was and how he deserved to die. She feels like she’s the bitter parent to Nora’s more loving one, and that their son doesn’t remember her before she lost her eye. Back in the past, Grace (Anne-Marie Duff) gives Bibi, Becka, Ursula (Eva Birthistle) and Eva (Sharon Horgan) another avenue to try and kill her husband, John Paul. But is she the crack shot she remembers?

Episode 5 of Bad Sisters Season 1 not only returns to the shows' brisk style of storytelling, it also turns out to be the best episode yet.

Bibi asks her sisters to attract JP in a way that his back is turned towards him, which would make shooting him in his fontanelle quite convenient. On his birthday, he has organized a paintball match with the entire family and given that Bibi is a crack shot (or used to be, at least), she can shoot him in his fontanelle and make it appear to be an accident. When the opportunity does arise, Bibi takes her time in sizing her target up but an overeager Becka nudges her right when she’s about to shoot. Even though she’s obsessed with the opportunity to kill JP single-handedly, she’s been out of practice for years and has a hard time practicing shooting for that purpose. At their office, JP reveals to their boss that Eva drinks too much, as a means of further hurting her chances of becoming the new financial director. Eva is crestfallen and angry at him for not having revealed this to her sooner. She takes up dancing as a way of winning Blanaid over but at the class, can’t bring herself to join the others given how stiff she’s become from having had her confidence and energy beaten out of her by JP for years. Thomas has no money that he can pay to Grace and if they can’t find a way to incriminate the Garvey sisters, Liam’s crimes will come to light, which would implicate Thomas and lead him to bear the brunt of. In the past, the Garvey sisters are provided with a golden opportunity to murder JP. In a flashback later in the episode, we see how JP picked Bibi up on a rainy night to take her home and then started to recklessly drive fast. They find out that Bibi used to be a decorated archer, is married to a woman named Nora, and has a son named Ruben. The relatively lesser focus on JP, who’s no less loathsome in this, is a welcome break from the agitation he causes by his actions in every episode.