Then you can go wherever it wants," she explains.īelow, Horgan tells EW what has inspired some of her most popular shows, like Catastrophe, Shining Vale, and now Bad Sisters.Ĭatastrophe fans loved the humorous verbal jousting of characters Rob and Sharon. "Even if it's sci-fi, murder mystery, or horror or comedy, for me, it has to be relatable.
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Bad Sisters is the most recent example of Horgan's ability to infuse comedy into other genres - she also worked on the recent horror-comedy series Shining Vale.įor Horgan, blending genres is all about making sure the storytelling is grounded. "It felt like the kind of thing I love to do, which is to cross the dark with the light, but it also felt like something I could make my own," she explains. After watching the pilot, she decided she was in. "I had never adapted anything and I'd never written a murder mystery before, or a thriller, and it just all felt a bit scary," Horgan shares. Horgan landed on the adaptation after Apple approached her following the end of the beloved comedy Catastrophe. The new Apple TV+ comedy-thriller, which is based on the Belgian series Clan, follows a group of five siblings who plot the murder of their abusive brother-in-law. The serpent has done its dirty work.For comedy talent Sharon Horgan, taking on Bad Sisters was a new challenge. Its vision of people in thrall to religious ritual and living at the mercy of nature may be poetic, but it is no idyll. The music lush but emotionally neutral and at times static conjures eternal things.įor all its beauty, though, you couldn’t describe “Times and Winds” as uplifting, and its attitude toward childhood is not sentimental in the manner of similarly minimalist Iranian movies. Augmenting this pastoral symphony are excerpts from several pieces by Arvo Pärt (including the “Te Deum”) that add texture and gravity to the film. As the sun rises at the end of the movie, this rearrangement of time simultaneously evokes the village’s unchanging way of life and the blind expectations of preadolescent children facing adulthood.Īs in Iranian films that focus on childhood, the soundtrack of “Times and Winds” is filled with the stirrings of nature the wind rushing through trees, animal sounds and bird song from near and far.
The film is organized around the five daily calls to Islamic prayer, chronologically reversed so that night is followed by evening, then afternoon, noon and dawn. Its absence of high drama allows such primary forces to become its main subject.
The teacher’s lessons about the Earth’s rotation, light, heat and the water cycle reflect the film’s focus on the intersection of daily life with the laws of nature. The scene of the son spying on the father spying on the woman rubs in the fact that this is no Garden of Eden. The boy is crushed when he comes upon his father peeping at her through a window of her house. Yakup has a secret infatuation with the village teacher (Selma Ergec), a beautiful young woman whom the villagers reward with regular deliveries of milk and bread. Yildiz is treated like a servant by her mother. There is a scene of a frustrated farmer beating a horse and another of an old man attacking his son for stealing nuts from a tree.
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