There’s a new treat on Amazon Prime Video for TV fans, with a glossy drama that has been compared to Mare of Easttown.
The sleek new whodunnit The Better Sister joins a swathe of hit shows, including The White Lotus and Big Little Lies, in tapping into a sense of schadenfreude by dramatising rich people having a terrible time.
Set in the upper echelons of wealthy New York society, the drama stars Jessica Biel as high-flying magazine editor Chloe. When her high-powered lawyer husband Adam (Corey Stoll) is viciously murdered, secrets start to emerge and it starts to look like Adam might not have been all he was cracked up to be.
In her time of need, Chloe turns to her estranged sister Nicky (Elizabeth Banks), who was also Adam’s first wife and is the mother of his son Ethan – so there’s a lot going on.
All eight episodes of the sisterly mystery are now available to stream on Prime Video, and it has generated an impressive 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with reviews comparing it to HBO hit Mare of Easttown.
One review in Film Focus Online wrote: ‘The Better Sister delivers all the intrigue, mess, and moral grey zones you’d want in a binge-worthy mystery series. It’s smart enough to keep you guessing, but juicy enough to be pure entertainment.’
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There are red herrings, twists and mysteries aplenty to keep you hooked along the way.
Banks, 51, and Biel, 43, have said they immediately felt that sibling connection with one another when they signed on for the show.
‘It was very natural,’ Banks said in an interview with Deadline. Turning to Biel, she joked: ‘I just started sh*ting on you pretty quickly, and then you took it, and then you gave it back a little. And then we just were like, ‘This is what it’s supposed to be.’’
She added: ‘With my own sisters, there are very few things that they could do where I would never want to talk to them again.
What other thrillers can you binge this weekend?
- Secrets We Keep. This ‘deeply unsettling’ Danish crime drama is one for Netflix subscribers, with all six episodes out now.
- Rematch. Currently streaming on Disney Plus, this is one for The Queen’s Gambit fans and has been described as a ‘masterpiece’.
- Suspicion. Starring none other than Pulp Fiction icon Uma Thurman, this is 8 tense episodes following a kidnapping.
- Bet. Another one on Netflix, this is based on a manga comic and dives into the tense world of gambling.
- The Fall. A classic TV thriller. If you haven’t watched this, head to Amazon Prime now. Gillian Anderson. Jamie Dornan. Need we say more?
‘Sleeping with my husband probably is one of them.’
Based on the novel of the same name by Alafair Burke, co-showrunners Olivia Milch and Regina Corrado also told the trade publication they knew they had to adapt the story after being gripped reading it.
‘We love dysfunction,’ Corrado joked. ‘I think the family stuff was always in the forefront for us. That was always what drove the train.’
The Better Sister is available to stream on Prime Video from today.
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