S02.E07: How To Pick A Prick

[Snazzy Daisy]

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The sisters hunt for the truth after a shocking betrayal while Houlihan goes head-to-head with Loftus.

Air Date: Dec 18, 2024

 

[SeanBug]

I just started and saw what Ian sent the female detective. 

Uh oh. 

[aghst]

The Garveys certainly attract certain kind of men.

Well Becka had two good guys but didn't last with either of them.

Grace married JP the Prick and then married Ian, Prick 2, whom Eva also slept with and got grifted by.

BTW, why would Cormac need to use the name of a dead homeless guy in Dublin?  There must be dozens or hundreds of Ian Reillys in Ireland?

What do you know, Angelica is alive but doesn't remember what happened.

One more episode for the sisters to stay out of jail?  Or could there be a cliffhanger for another season?

 

[abbyzenn]

Not surprised Angelica is alive.

Not surprised Ian is bad.  

Am surprised we found out both in one episode.  Ian is worse than I thought - crooked former cop.  Guess his wife is in on it too.

Guess this means we're not going to see any more of Matt.  

 

 

 

 

 

[SeanBug]

I had a feeling Angelica was alive. But how much time has passed since she fell off the boat? Seemed like it was a day or so. 

We all thought something was fishy with Ian, taking off and not coming back when Grace died until the wake. And he never seemed all that upset.  So he knew she had that money and was just preying on her. 

I still hope Houlihan the female detective gets some comeuppance. She is a nightmare.  

I swear Grace could be a Kardashian, another group of sisters with terrible taste in men. 

 

[SoMuchTV]

12 minutes ago, SeanBug said:

I still hope Houlihan the female detective gets some comeuppance. She is a nightmare.  

Oh gee what did I miss?  I thought she was being portrayed as the honest, diligent cop?  I guess I need to rewatch.

[SeanBug]

9 minutes ago, SoMuchTV said:

Oh gee what did I miss?  I thought she was being portrayed as the honest, diligent cop?  I guess I need to rewatch.

Nothing probably. She just jumps to conclusions so quickly without finding all the evidence.  She annoys me.

[aghst]

17 minutes ago, SoMuchTV said:

Oh gee what did I miss?  I thought she was being portrayed as the honest, diligent cop?  I guess I need to rewatch.

5 minutes ago, SeanBug said:

Nothing probably. She just jumps to conclusions so quickly without finding all the evidence.  She annoys me.

That seems to be the common reaction.

I think it's because she's a threat to the heroines of the show, the Garvey sisters with whom viewers identify.

She's an aggressive young female detective on her first case, trying to break the case because her instincts tell her there is smoke there.

Under different circumstances, Eva and others would be supportive someone like her, as she's being gaslit and browbeaten by a male superior.  I'm presuming the sisters are more or less feminists, not necessarily card-carrying ones but believe in equality and the agency of women, else  they probably wouldn't have fought JP, ultimately deciding to get rid of him.

 

 

 

[nameless slob]

6 hours ago, aghst said:

The Garveys certainly attract certain kind of men.

 

1 hour ago, SeanBug said:

I swear Grace could be a Kardashian, another group of sisters with terrible taste in men. 

Why is the conclusion always about women, how women should have acted, behaved or read the situation differently?

How women should have better taste in men? So even when women is deceived by somebody it is our own fault?

Why can't the conclusion be different: men are liars who pretend to be something else of what they are, and deceive women? Men are liars who prey on women and deceive them.

I just despise the responsabilization of women for anything men do to us. If they cheat, deceive, lie, abuse, is all about us, about us women not having better taste in men? 

It is not about them and how deceiving and abusive and manipulative they are?

That fucker Joe said the same thing on the episode, but I could expect that conclusion from an asshole of a man.

[aghst]

Some therapists would say that if some women are repeatedly victimized by men, they have some vulnerability that these predatory types are able to pick up.

I'm not saying that's true, though that is supposedly a clinical observation, not necessarily a scientific one.

That doesn't mean they deserve these kinds of men or "pricks" as the show calls them.

 

[Snazzy Daisy]

Dammit. Angelica is right about Ian Reilly. I was hoping he’s a red herring.

Angelica being found alive and Ian being the big bad this season are predictable. The only surprising twist is about Cormac Sweeney’s true identity.

So, the secret phone that Becka found in E02 belongs to Cormac. He is knowledgeable about covering tracks because he’s an ex-cop and a professional swindler. He’s also an abusive husband, does he give Becka the black eye? What’s his endgame by taking Blanaid to Eva’s house?

Eva getting duped financially, emotionally and intimately by a scammer, that’s traumatizing.

Angelica is being melodramatic again with her “miracle” story after spending 3 hours in freezing sea. She’s going to milk this story for a long time. Does she forget about her neck brace?

Personal stories involving Loftus (his retirement, his custody battle etc) are unnecessary.

In between all the chaos, this show gives us closures about Becka/Matt and her pregnancy. But they drop Ursula’s pill addiction story like it never happens. 

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“You can’t intimidate someone with Maltesers.”

My favorite line… 😂   
 

[SeanBug]

11 hours ago, nameless slob said:

Why is the conclusion always about women, how women should have acted, behaved or read the situation differently?

I don't think anyone is blaming Grace for what happened to her, or what JP did to the sisters.  Perhaps "bad luck" would be a better term to describe what happened. 

TBS, perhaps people get a little blinded by their attraction to someone, and don't see problems that others who don't have an emotional attachment can see. 

Men also make choices in their romantic lives that don't turn out well, and make the same choices over and over. 

It's just a tv show and we're all just chatting and joking around here. Nothing should be taken seriously.  And we don't know what went on before Grace married Ian, if there were signs.  Grace was rushing somewhere with a lot of money.  Should we assume she was going to pay Ian off so he wouldn't turn her or the sisters in?  The character is written to be a caretaker type person who might let people take advantage of her. 

 

[SeanBug]

9 hours ago, Snazzy Daisy said:

But they drop Ursula’s pill addiction story like it never happens. 

I've been wondering the same thing!  One minute her ex's gf/wife(?) was turning her in to the hospital authorities, and now no mention of it. 

I think I mentioned earlier, on a similar note, where was Angelica this whole time? Laying face down in water is the last we saw her, and it seems a couple days passed and she turns up at the hospital, did they not contact anyone? 

Houlihan may be getting played by the other detective a little, but again, she's written to be annoying. Like in Season 1 the insurance guy was threatening the sisters. 

TBH, the show is a hoot, but the Garvey's are not the brightest bunch. The series is based on a ridiculous premise, they are trying to be good but just can't get out of their own way. 

[Paws]

On 12/19/2024 at 7:14 AM, SeanBug said:

Men also make choices in their romantic lives that don't turn out well, and make the same choices over and over. 

The difference being that the men don’t end up dead from their bad choices.

I really like Houlihan, I hope she cracks the case and then she and the Garveys work together. Blanaid however will need an absolute shitload of therapy

[Night Cheese]

I'm just glad Ian/Cormac is fleecing grieving women of their life insurance payouts, because for a while there I was really worried he was a sexual predator who was trying to eliminate Grace to get to Blanaid. He's still an awful person in just about every respect, but at least I don't think his goal was to molest Blanaid. 

I feel like Houlihan is just as annoying as the insurance brother last season. They both are correct in their instincts, it's just that their incessant need to get to the truth of the matter interferes with our Garvey sisters sloppily covering up all of their actions and missteps. But I need to go back and watch the first couple episodes of this season because I don't really understand why the police (guards) are investigating The Prick's death two years after the fact.

[SeanBug]

On 12/20/2024 at 6:03 PM, Night Cheese said:

I'm just glad Ian/Cormac is fleecing grieving women of their life insurance payouts, because for a while there I was really worried he was a sexual predator who was trying to eliminate Grace to get to Blanaid. He's still an awful person in just about every respect, but at least I don't think his goal was to molest Blanaid. 

I feel like Houlihan is just as annoying as the insurance brother last season. They both are correct in their instincts, it's just that their incessant need to get to the truth of the matter interferes with our Garvey sisters sloppily covering up all of their actions and missteps. But I need to go back and watch the first couple episodes of this season because I don't really understand why the police (guards) are investigating The Prick's death two years after the fact.

Didn't the investigation start back up after his father was found in the pond? 

I really enjoy Sharon Horgan's work but I do wonder if Bad Sisters was only meant to be a one season show, and the popularity of it had Apple TV asking her to do another.  At some point you have to wonder how many bad decisions the Garvey sisters can make. Not in their choices of romantic partners, but just the ridiculous situations they put themselves in, just for dramatic purposes. 

The interaction between the sisters, the way they give each other shit and then show so much love and loyalty rings very true, but shouldn't one of them be putting the brakes on some of these schemes? 

[Night Cheese]

 

Didn't the investigation start back up after his father was found in the pond? 

Oh right, thank you!