Actress, screenwriter and producer, the Irishwoman, specialized in irreverent comedies, widens her range with “Bad sisters”, a black and funny series.
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His name may not say much on this side of the Channel, but it is a safe bet that you have already crossed the blond brushing and the high cheekbones of Sharon Horgan in one of these comedies irreverent which the English have the secret. Familiar face of the little British screen, the Irishman is also a popular screenwriter, and one of the most powerful women in current television fiction. It is also as creator, screenwriter, producer and actress – just that – that this very busy young fifties tells us about Bad Sisters, a black comedy adapted from the Belgian Clan series for the Apple TV+platform, broadcast from August 19.
Located on the Irish coast, not far from Dublin, the miniseries features five sisters suspected by two broken insurers of having killed the husband of one of them, an ignoble character named John Paul, played with a lot of self -denial by Claes Bang. Despite a dark subtext on domestic violence, Bad Sisters is a tender and funny series, inflated with positive energy. “There is indeed something cathartic to observe these five women trying to kill this odious man who, like a cockroach, refuses to die, has fun Sharon Horgan, joined on the phone, in the hubbub of a boarding room . During confinement, the number of complaints for domestic violence has exploded in the United Kingdom. Bad sisters evokes these closed-door violence in the form of entertainment, which may make it possible to reach a wider audience. “
The broadcast of Bad Sisters on Apple TV+ should actually give an accelerator to the actress’s international career, who considers to get out of her comfort zone by attacking the Mondery Mystery in the English. “All the series I made before were interested in relationships, intimacy, and the episodes were limited to thirty minutes. I wanted to try another format. If we do not push ourselves to do Different things, we become cheesy, she assumes. But I put the story in my sauce, I located it in Ireland and I brought my tone there. “
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The tone that made Sharon Horgan’s success is particularly free and raw. And this since the actress, born in London but raised in the campaign in Ireland, made herself known to the public in the Pulling series, broadcast between 2006 and 2009. “When I proposed Pulling to the BBC, I AI presented as a sex and the city with Kebab, “she said, imagined, a pictorial way to evoke the unreasonable alcohol consumption of the three young heroines of this co-edited sitcom with her friend Dennis Kelly. Trash and hilarious, Pulling allowed the actress to win a British Comedy Award in 2008 and has since become cult, at least if we believe the number of screenwriters – especially women – who cite it among their influences. Sharon Horgan is already 36 years old at the time, she had years of study, odd jobs and aborted projects behind her, but she is launched for good. And, sign of time, it is television and platforms that will offer him the best opportunities.
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