The 'Bad Sisters' Cast Talk *That* Season 2 Premiere Plot Twist

A second season seemed unlikely when Bad Sisters ended in 2022. Based on the Belgian series Clan (retitled The Out Laws for U.K. audiences), which only aired a single season when it was released on the Flemish language network VTM, the Garvey sisters had banded together to help the second oldest, Grace (Anne-Marie Duff), get away with murder. “It felt very finished,” says Sarah Greene (Sexy Beast), who plays the forthright second-youngest sibling Bibi Garvey. “Neatly tied up with a little bow.” 

The cast sat down to talk to Telly Visions after the Season 2 double-episode premiere, where Duff (The Suspect), who plays Grace with hilarious nervous energy, admits she suspected the siblings would be back. “As soon as you started to realize how fond people were of the show, there was inevitability to it,” Duff says. “And people were desperate to fill in all the blanks of what happened to Grace and the girls in the future. Would they get their comeuppance? There was a thirst for it. It just felt like, of course, it must happen.”

Grace spent the first season of Apple TV+’s sleeper hit, from creator Sharon Horgan (Frayed) embroiled in an emotionally and physically abusive marriage to John Paul (Claes Bang), one of 2022’s great TV villains. Her sisters tried everything, including multiple attempts on John-Paul’s life, to rescue Grace. Ultimately, it was Grace who murdered her dastardly husband while her sisters helped her cover up her crime.

As the second season begins, Grace is something viewers are unfamiliar with: she’s happy. She has a new love in her life and gets married in the season premiere. “It was lovely because I got to show a side of Grace that you don’t get to see at all in season one,” Duff says. “It was lovely to even be in that wedding dress.” 

But Grace’s joy is short-lived when she’s killed in a tragic car accident at the end of the second episode, though not before launching the show into another season-long mystery. What was Grace hiding (besides, obviously, the murder of John Paul)? And why, before her death, did she leave oldest sister Eva (played by Horgan) a dramatic message saying she needed her help?

Duff says she knew Grace’s fate before the season started, “It wasn’t like a soap opera. I didn’t read the script and go, ‘Oh my god!’ But I loved it. I thought it was a brilliant idea. I could still embrace the joy and the sense of future that Grace inhabits at the beginning of the season.” However, her co-stars aren’t as sanguine. “It’s devastating,” says Greene. “Grace finally met a nice man, and then it’s all taken away from her. Her sisters are left with the grief and that void.”

But Greene can concede that what’s awful for the Garvey sisters is excellent for the show. “It's a great springboard to where we go,” she says. ‘It adds so much to the story and the plot. Because the girls are back on a mission as detective sleuths, it’s back to doing what we enjoy them doing in Season 1. They might not be murdering anyone, but they’re undercover, and they're up to no good trying to uncover what happened to Grace. In terms of story, it works, even though it’s super sad.”

But Duff's exit also leaves the series room to add a new face, and this season, Fiona Shaw (Baptiste) joins the cast as the sister of Roger (Michael Smiley), a conniving creature named Anjelica.  

“I honestly didn’t know how Anjelica could fit in at all, I really didn’t,” Shaw says. “You already have a big group of women dominating the scenes. How would you have another one? But it was ingenious to have Roger’s sister come to live with him, so you had another flavor of Roger’s story. But we also developed it as we went along. In a funny way, I think Sharon wasn’t sure how she would fit in. It just got built up as we went along.”

Two episodes in, it’s hard to figure out what Anjelica’s deal is. "I don’t think she has a motivation,” Shaw says.”She wants to be friends with Grace. Obviously that gets cut short, and Grace has already kind of had enough of her. Everyone has had enough of her. So she gets more and more isolated and more and more desperate. I think she wants to be loved like most people in the world, but she has slightly unloveable traits, so people find it difficult to love her. She’s a bit of an outsider. She doesn’t know what she does wrong.”

The second season opened with the sisters driving up to the edge of the water, seemingly ready to dump a car with a body in the trunk into the ocean. Who was in the car, and why were they doing that? The cast is giving up nothing. “You’re just going to have to watch and find out who that is and how they end up there,” Greene says. “It’s going to shock you; that's all we can say.”

Bad Sisters Season 2's first two episodes are streaming on Apple TV+. The series continues with weekly episodes every Wednesday, with the finale streaming on Christmas Day, December 25, 2024.