Bad Sisters
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The penultimate episode of a TV season or show is often the most important installment.
Theres a lot of them.
After nine hours of articulating just how good JP is at hurting people,Bad Sistersrevels in the possibilities.
Lets consider each one …
Lets get the Bs out of the way first.
Becka spent most of the episode in an emotional tailspin after realizing that she accidentally killed Minna.
That being said, if itwasBecka, that would put Matt in an even more difficult situation.
Personally, Ill be disappointed if Ben is the one to have done the deed.
You wont get me to fall for your most obvious red herrings, show!
We see Bibi running through the woods the night of JPs death something she doesnt tell her sisters about.
But Im not getting killer vibes from her this week.
At the start of this show, Bibi was the sister who got the murder ball rolling.
But since then, weve seen Bibi work through her issues.
She still wants to kill JP, but shes not quite as single-minded about it.
Still, it seems like she knows something.
Could she have seen what happened to JP?
Did she leave to slip some drugs into JPs wine?
(Yes, I had to Google pentobarbital taste to write this recap.
Apparently, it is extremely bitter.)
Roger doesnt need to kill JP.
He already got his revenge by telling JP he forgives him.
you could see how much the act shakes JP, especially because he can read Rogers sincerity.
But its too late; the damage has already been done.
Roger cares about JPs immortal soul.
Im still wondering if Grace is the one ultimately responsible for JPs death, whatever form that may take.
While JP has hurt many people over the course of this show, hes hurt Grace the most.
Its not love; its manipulation in the pursuit of power, and JP is damn good at it.
Weve seen cracks in Graces happy-housewife facade throughout the season.
Did she finally explode?
Was it realizing what JP has done to sweet Roger that brought the whole house down?
I dont think we can fully rule it out.
Whatever happened to JP, were well into the messy repercussions of his death in the present-day story line.
Matt and Becka are in love but on opposite sides of a high-stakes insurance claim.
(Great, Tom is never going to be emotionally honest ever, ever again.)
Now the Brothers Claflin officially know that the Garvey sisters werent all together the night of JPs death.
In fact, they were all apart.
So how does Going Rogue do as a penultimate episode?
Most of Going Rogue, however, takes place in the past tense.
Like every other episode of this killer story, it left me desperate to find out how it ends.
Sisterly Advice
Were not a firing squad.
We always knew one of us would get the final bullet.
Um, I didnt know that.
Fine, give Claes Bang the Oscar or whatever.
I believe it all.
This is an important reminder that however monstrously and unfeeling JP might act, he feels things deeply.
Its his inability to share those feelings with others that has made him so unhappy.
Repression at its worst.
None of this would have happened if the prick hadnt locked his dead dad in the freezer.
I mean … kind of?
The moral complexity of Minnas death is a doozy, and Im not sureBad Sistersreally does it justice.
I dontthinkthis was meant to be funny, but I found it hilarious.
JP throws his dads dead body into the pond along with all of his glass eyes.
It makes for a good shot, but how deep could Minnas landscaped pond possibly be?
Matt and Becka try not caring about each other on for size; theyre not very good at it.
We can live in a box outside the back ofHarvey Norman.
I dont give a shit, as long as I have you both.
Theresa is pretty great.
Id like a face-to-face with those Garveys.
I, too, would like to see Theresa have a face-to-face with the Garveys.
Aside from being an accomplice to murder?
I dont know, fit?
Funeral chatter: Ursula isnt coming.
Its so much fun.
Damn, they built that cabin back quickly.
Gerald is such an idiot.
His form of casual misogyny is so common and so frustrating.
Get away from my car or I will mow you down like roadkill.
Eva always says the coolest things.
Might as wellbe hung for a sheep.
If you arent familiar with this idiom either, IGoogled it for us.
Tom goes to meet with the solicitor to find out just how screwed Claflin & Sons is.
No point in having a solicitor as a pal if you dont use them.
You dont have pals.
Theresa, like, really knows and loves Tom.
We also see it in Bibis marriage.
Theresa not only gets out of bed but puts on actual clothes, which honestly seems even harder.
She had a seizure.
I just had a 23-year-old with the emotional depth of a Chihuahua lay it out for me.
This episode really wanted to remind us how beautiful Ireland is.
Why did you do it?
You were my friend.
Well perhaps because I didnt like you sniffing around my family because we are not friends.
And we never were.
The way the systems around him allow him to.
Just put your party hats on and be normal.
