'Sisters to death': the best family plan is a murder

The husband of one of the Garvey sisters has died under mysterious circumstances.

When the life insurance company begins to investigate, they soon set their sights on the deceased's four sisters-in-law.

They had every reason to kill his sister's controlling, domineering, misogynistic husband.

Apple TV + premieres on Friday the 19th the series

, with the screenwriter and actress Sharon Horgan (

) at the controls.

The plot follows, on the one hand, the consequences of that death and, on the other hand, shows in

how the sisters conspired to achieve their goal.

The viewer knows it was them, but how did it all happen?

With a touch of

, plenty of vindication of brotherly love and a good deal of black humor,

is based on the Belgian fiction

whose story Horgan has adapted and moved to the Ireland in which she grew up.

The series is so complicated to classify in a specific genre that the question makes the writer and actress laugh.

“It's hard to catalog, and that's why I hate this question.

It's a comedy and a drama and a

… It's about a family trying to rescue their sister from an abusive relationship.

But it's also the mess they get into trying to kill her husband multiple times and failing again and again.

But that's the good thing about it and what I liked about the original.

I wanted to push the limits a little bit, because it seemed to me that these sisters would not have an easy time getting out of it, that there would be a lot of collateral damage and they would end up fractured by those behaviors.

I tried to lean into the drama and not just the fun of the assassination attempts.

Also how crossing that line changes you as a person,” Horgan says in a video call interview.

Eve Hewson, Sharon Horgan, Anne-Marie Duff, Eva Birthistle and Sarah Greene, the five sisters from 'Sisters to Death'.

Finding the right tone was the most difficult thing for Horgan in a series that was already a challenge for her, with one-hour episodes compared to the half-hour comedies she had written until then and with a larger package.

“Maintaining the tone was very complicated, because sometimes it is quite silly, other times it is very dark… It was not easy.

It's lucky that we had a fantastic group of actors, because they had to be very funny and scary at the same time, or very funny and sad in the same scene, "describes the screenwriter.

Like the protagonists of this story, Horgan has four brothers with whom she is very close.

“I grew up on a kind of farm in the middle of nowhere.

We lived very close to a small town where everyone knew everything about each other.

My ties with my brothers are really strong, I know well, and I have verified it, that they would do anything for me and I would not allow anyone to do anything to them.

So it was important to her to set this story in the Ireland she knows, from her childhood.

“The first images I showed Apple for the series were from places that are very close to where I grew up.

If we could make the Garvey house feel very real, the sisters would feel more real too."

Sarah Greene, Sharon Horgan and Eve Hewson, in the tenth episode of 'Sisters to Death'.

The protagonists of

are five women used to taking care of each other since they were orphaned when they were very young.

Horgan plays the older sister, and Anne-Marie Duff, Eva Birthistle, Sarah Greene and Eve Hewson round out the group.

Horgan and other writers have normalized television to represent the thousand faces and even the imperfections of women.

“Before, television was written almost only by men, and they wrote women in a certain way: mothers or wives, angels or whores… It was more black or white.

We are not interested in that, we want to show the complexity of what it means to be a woman in this world”, defends the screenwriter and executive producer.

Although it was the comedy

(2015-2019), which she co-created and co-starred with Rob Delaney, with which she won international applause, Sharon Horgan had been making merits for years to be recognized as one of the innovators of contemporary television comedy.

She is also the creator of

, which between 2016 and 2019 starred Sarah Jessica Parker on HBO.

In 2019, she signed an agreement to create series for Apple TV +.

Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, stars of 'Catastrophe'.

His stories and characters stand out for their honesty and realism, for how easy it is to identify with them.

“It is very difficult for me to write something that does not seem real, it makes my hair stand on end when I hear something that sounds like a phrase from a series or a phrase from a movie.

I like everything to sound like it could actually come out of someone's mouth.

That's why I always write with a mix of drama and comedy, because that's how I see life.

There is never a moment that is pure drama, that is not real, the comedy is always there.

And the characters, not that I base them on myself, but I like to use my own instincts about what I would say or do at any given moment.

Many women have come up to me and thanked me for doing so.

And once someone thanks you for putting real women on the scene, it's very hard to turn back.

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