TheWrap magazine: ”It’s very enjoyable just spending time with them, whether they’re trying to kill ‘the Prick’ or not,“ editor Derek Holland jokes.

Based rather faithfully on the Flemish TV series “Clan,” AppleTV+’s “Bad Sisters” transplanted the darkly comic tale of a group of five sisters, one horrific husband and a possible murder to a dreamy depiction of greater Dublin. But the real narrative hook of the series, and the reason it became a talking-point show last summer, is its labyrinthine structure: Just as you’re embroiled in a storyline, the focus can shift on a dime (through a nifty film-reel effect) and transport you to another time, often not that far back in the chronology, deepening the focus and development of its many characters and creating more intrigue.

The ability to jumble the timeline, editor Derek Holland said, came about through a string of unfortunate yet fortuitous circumstances. “We had a director who had a looming deadline to go to another job, and all sorts of COVID delays in the middle of the shoot,” he said. “The second block (of episodes) got pushed and went on much longer than was intended, but it worked out to be a huge advantage because there was a stage where all 10 episodes were in the edit suite at the same time and none were locked. So especially for someone like (co-creator and star) Sharon Horgan, she could see how arcs and moments were developing in Episodes 9 and 10 and filter those back into decisions in Episode 1 or 2, which was a real luxury.”

Real the full interview on TheWrap.