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Review: When 'Bad Sisters' team up to kill, the result is an engaging, lovable black comedy

Eve Hewson, from left, Sharon Horgan, Anne-Marie Duff, Eva Birthistle and Sarah Greene in "Bad Sisters."

In the engaging Apple TV+ miniseries "Bad Sisters," closely adapted by Sharon Horgan ("Catastrophe") from the Belgian series "Clan" and set in and around Dublin, four sisters set out to liberate a fifth from the husband who is destroying her. That the husband begins the series in a coffin, before the story jumps back in time, suggests that they have succeeded, though questions will remain until the last of the series' eight episodes.

It's a comedy, mostly.

Horgan plays Eva Garvey, who took charge of her siblings after the

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