Fiona Shaw Says Sharon Horgan 'Takes Things Right to the Edge' in 'Psychotic'Bad SistersSeason 2 Finale (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Warning: This story contains spoilers for the season 2 finale ofBad Sisters.

Fiona Shawhas no notes for the season 2 finale ofBad Sisters.

“It’s hilarious, isn’t it? And it’s on that knife edge, isn’t it, of comic and absolutely psychotic,” she says of her character whacking Ian (Owen McDonnell) with a hurley and killing him — or so it seemed. “I think that’s where the series works very, very well.”

Ian isn’t actually dead, though, as the Garvey sisters discover when they hide him in the trunk of their car and attempt to throw his body into the sea, only for him to wake up. “It’s very clever,” Shaw says.

Recalling when she learned of her fate, theHarry Potteralum remembers being so thrown off when she was toldGrace (Anne-Marie Duff) would die in episode 2that she could hardly focus on Angelica’s fate.

“I don’t think I could hear very much after that, and then they said they killed me. I said, ‘What? What? What?’ So I was killed, and then it took some sentences before they said I was going to come back to life, but in a way, I was killed,” she says, joking that “everybody’s killed” on the show this season.

Crediting the show’s creatorSharon Horganfor the twists and turns, Shaw continues, “She takes things right to the edge, I think Sharon. She thinks of the most impossible thing, and then somehow swims her own way out of it through the writing.”

Horgan, 54, writes the show with the women in mind — she stars as one of the sisters alongsideSarah Greene,Eve Hewsonand Eva Birthistle — which is what gives the plot its spark, in Shaw’s eyes.

“The wit of the girls is sort of infused into it, and all the eccentricities that went along — that we all put into it — then became part of the writing, because Sharon is writing it all the time.”

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