This wicked revenge fantasy about five sisters who attempt to kill a monstrous husband is wonderfully cathartic, perfectly paced and hugely witty. Its brilliant cast don’t put a foot wrong
as “the blackest comedy ever”. To know that it has been retooled by, and stars, Sharon Horgan is to be reassured that nothing will be lost in translation. This well-founded hope is confirmed within the first few minutes, which see widow Grace pressing down hard on her dead husband’s genitals to try to rid him of the erection she has just noticed he is maintaining in his coffin. “Post-mortem priapism,” explains her sister Ursula . “It’s not uncommon. Especially after a violent death.
When we flash back six months, it becomes clear why. With painful, pinpoint accuracy, he is shown to have been a controlling, coercive, borderline physically violent man who has spent the years of his marriage to Grace eroding her strength and her spirit. Their scenes together are agony as he needles, wrongfoots and destablises her at every turn, closing down her options at the tiniest levels so that the idea of making freer, bigger choices is no longer even part of her mental landscape.
Unfortunately for the sisters, we are not the only ones who suspect foul play. Eager not to pay out on a hefty life insurance policy that will bankrupt the firm he inherited from his father, agent Tom Claffin and – more reluctantly – his half-brother Matt start digging into what happened on the night their client died.
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