Messy household drama could make for very entertaining storytelling, particularly if there’s any type of crime concerned. Within the new Prime Video restricted collection “The Higher Sister,” based mostly on the novel of the identical title by Alafair Burke, household secrets and techniques turn into very public fodder when lawyer, father, and husband Adam Macintosh (Corey Stoll) is brutally murdered. Now his spouse Chloe (Jessica Biel), the editor-in-chief of a fictional journal, is left to choose up the items and doubtlessly attempt to clear her personal title. There’s only one drawback: her husband Adam can also be her estranged sister Nicky’s (Elizabeth Banks) ex-husband, and she or he’s been elevating Nicky and Adam’s son Ethan (Maxwell Acee Donovan) nearly as if he had been her personal. Ugly household secrets and techniques being revealed may derail what’s left of Chloe’s good little life, and now she must combat for all of it.
The collection was created by Craig Gillespie, who has beforehand completed some nice work when telling tales about ladies who had been wronged by the world indirectly, from “Cruella” to “Pam & Tommy,” and it looks like he is tapped into that expertise as soon as extra as a result of regardless of solely being out for in the future, “The Higher Sister” is already on the prime of Prime Video’s streaming charts.
The Different Sister is a twisting household drama that is topped Prime’s charts
Whereas “The Higher Sister” appears like a real crime story ripped from the headlines, it is a totally fictional story that nonetheless has lots of the identical themes and tropes. Biel is not any stranger to the true crime miniseries, having performed the title character in Hulu’s “Sweet,” whereas Banks just lately portrayed an aesthetician seeking to kill the competitors in “Skincare,” which was impressed by a real story. Seeing them face off as sisters is truthfully a great little bit of enjoyable. Making issues extra difficult for the sisters is Detective Nancy Guidry, performed by the always-great Kim Dickens, who additionally performed a detective within the equally chilly true-crime influenced thriller “Gone Woman.”
Possibly persons are actually simply thirsting for salacious thrillers that make our personal households appear rather less troubled, or perhaps it is the true crime ties and killer solid and artistic workforce, however both means, “The Higher Sister” is getting individuals . The restricted collection’ many twists and turns have already impressed 1,000,000 ending explainers, and from the seems of issues, the ending goes to have much more individuals speaking once they’ve completed binge-watching all eight episodes. I, for one, am all the time excited by Banks and Biel being difficult baddies on the large or small display.
