Bad Sisters creator and star Sharon Horgan has said that Grace’s death was a “brutal thing” but a necessary decision for the second season as it felt right for the character in the situation they were in. Based on the Belgian series Clan and adapted by Horgan for Apple TV , the Motherland writer stars as eldest sister Eva, alongside Anne Marie Duff as Grace, Eve Hewson as Becka , Sarah Greene as Bibi , and Eva Birthistle as Ursula. The black comedy follows the death of Grace’s abusive husband John Paul, played by Danish actor Claes Bang, in season one, with flashbacks showing the various plots and schemes that led to his murder, along with the final reveal of how he really died.
Season two begins two years after the events of the first season, with the second episode ending with the death of Grace. Horgan explained in a new interview that the idea for Grace’s death was rejected at first for being too dark, but it felt right for the character. “We had the idea about what would happen but then we dropped it, because we thought, ‘I don’t know if we can continue the tone of Bad Sisters with Grace dying.
’ It felt too dark,” Horgan told The Hollywood Reporter . “Then we ended up going back to it because we couldn’t really see a world where all five sisters would just be on this kind of paper – the whole first season was about protecting her. Then to lose her and to want to get to the bottom of what happened, and for there to be so much to be unveiled and r.
