Bad Sisters (TV Series) The Cold Truth (2022) User Reviews

Could the cold truth be the Truth

[moviesfilmsreviewsinc · 10/10 · 20 October 2022]

In episode 8 of Bad Sisters, we learn the circumstances behind George's death. Years ago, George was working in his basement, where he stuffs dead animals, when John Paul greeted him to ask for money.

George laughed in his face and refused him the money. Soon, however, he started choking on a glass eyeball. JP went to help him, but stopped himself. He decided to watch his father choke to death-and then his eyes landed on the freezer. The Garvey sisters have certainly had many mess-ups before, but nothing has left such a bad feeling in the pit of one's stomach as Becka shutting the freezer door on someone she didn't even see. Did Becka actually kill JP? Or the person who's become a dear friend-poor, sweet Minna? Meanwhile, drama ramps up between the sisters in both past and present timelines. And as much as I love to root for the underdog, it turns out the sisters may have been right about "Baby Becka." She puts them at too much risk. She's likely going to have to prove herself even more to finally get her sisters' approval. But Eva, too, has done some posturing-as protector. And she may just have to prove that she is one. After finding George's body, Becka thinks that John Paul must have killed his father. It makes sense: Because everyone thinks George is still alive, John Paul can spend his money however he wants. Ursula wants to ring the guards, but Bibi refuses. After all, John Paul won't be out of Grace's life until he's dead. Becka then hatches a plan to lock JP in the freezer, but the others think the plan is too risky. At work, Eva gets the news that JP was promoted over her-despite the fact that she is more qualified. Her boss tells her that John Paul is simply more "temperamentally suited" to the role. Eva knows then that John Paul sabotaged her and spilled about her stint in rehab.

Roger returns home and insists to Grace that the rumors about him aren't true. But someone in the area called the guards on him. She believes him. Later, John Paul warns Roger to stay away from them.

Becka, meanwhile, tries to figure out how long it would take for JP to freeze to death. Ursula says he'd die before the body freezes-in two to three hours. They go to check out the freezer in person, and learn that sound doesn't travel through. This makes it an even better method of murder, but Eva still can't get behind it.

MAJOR SPOILERS!!! What an annoying episode!

[backofthevan · 3/10 · 30 September 2022]

I have really been enjoying Bad Sisters, but I watched this episode feeling highly annoyed most of the way through.

SPOILERS!!!

1. Apparently this office where Eva works (while regularly being tormented by her A-hole brother-in-law) is the ONLY place in the known universe where she can find employment. For some reason the idea of escaping the misery in which she has long found herself has never occurred to her!?!?!?! Get up off your backside, Eva, go out and get yourself another job! You know, a place where your lovely self and your experience, knowledge and ability will be appreciated, MINUS that creep who makes your workplace hellish for you. Is Eva an indentured servant? Is she paying off some kind of debt to that company, keeping her tied to that office whether she likes it or not? I don't see any chains holding her down, so why on earth is she putting up with it? Get out while you can, Eva!!! Nobody is forcing you to endure that misery!

2. Even though some of these sisters apparently have jobs (see #1), they seem to have all the time in the world to drop everything else (jobs, kids, homes, families) to meet up any time, day or night, to while away the hours, and bottomless glasses of booze, dreaming up ways to carry out their major aim in life. All they have to do is text each other to appear here or there (usually at each other's multi-million-pound homes) and moments later, there they all are. Sitting around the table with no other demands on their time. I have no problem with what it is they're discussing. My bewilderment is how they all happen to have so much free time to discuss it in the first place.

3. Eva is NOT the boss of you! I know Eva raised them when their parents died, but Gordon Bennett! They're all (allegedly) grown up women now, so why do they let her boss them around? Eva says "no" so it's no. Think for yourselves, girls! Take a vote, if you must, but dictatorships are SO not the vibe!

4. They get themselves into the cold locker to see what's what. Then, beyond all reason and common sense, they STAY IN THERE, where JP could show up any second, standing around, in the cold, with the freezer door open (who's to say it might not swing shut on its own, with no way out????) having a conversation that could quite easily and much more sensibly be carried out warm and cozy at home, around the table, safe from lunatics, with a nice cuppa and a bickie to go with it. I was shouting at the screen: "What is wrong with you morons??? Get out of there!" Nobody listened to me, though.

5. Becka sits in the cupboard waiting for JP to enter the freezer. SOMEBODY enters the room, crosses the floor and goes into the cold locker. Does Becka actually SEE JP do this? No. She carries out the plan, returns the next day to complete the process, then goes to Eva and announces "The Prick is dead" and they embrace in relief. Did Becka SEE JP dead in the freezer? Again, no. She ASSUMED it was JP who entered it, assumed he was still in there and well dead, without even checking to be sure. The mind boggles at the stupidity. We shall have to wait a week to see who, if anyone, was in the freezer. I'll be very surprised if it was actually JP, although it would be most appropriate if it were. Then these sisters will have to find another excuse to while away endless hours sitting around boozing.

These are the kinds of things that kept me annoyed throughout this episode, and there were even more. Why does Gabriel care so much if his co-workers know he's gay? Is this 1957? Why does he believe JP when he knows what a (any insulting expletive here will do fine) he is? Why, oh why, did Gabriel risk his own life saving that doorknob JP??? (facetious/rhetorical question). Why would Gabriel think there might be something going on between Eva and JP (he wouldn't; it's just thrown in there for conflict), etc., etc.