The closeness between the sisters – mirrored offscreen with a WhatsApp group chat named “season two unhealthy bitches” which Sharon describes as “bratty” – might be examined this season, after they grapple with the aftermath and ripple impact of abuse.
“I wished it to have an actual cause for current, and never identical to one for the cash,” Sharon tells me of the brand new chapter. The conclusion of season one felt fairly tied up, with too lovely a bow, nearly. The Garvey sisters are within the clear, they’re collectively, they’re swimming someplace within the Irish sea at peace – with abuse sufferer Grace feeling empowered and liberated. Whereas Sharon knew the ending was well-liked, she didn’t really feel it was essentially true to actual life.
“In actuality, there’s an ongoing trauma from being in an abusive relationship like that,” Sharon explains, including that Anne Marie Duff’s character Grace specifically would have struggled with disgrace and guilt from the occasions of season one. She provides that coming to write down season two and focussing on the aftermath of Grace’s abuse and John Paul’s demise felt “far more up my avenue” after the stunning black comedy (which she describes as “caper and enjoyable”) of the sisters continued marketing campaign to kill their brother-in-law in season one.
“I actually wished to get into how these ladies are let down by the police, and by the assist networks round them,” Sharon says, explaining how this opens the sisters as much as additional abuse. “They’re targets for the subsequent unhealthy one that desires to reap the benefits of a susceptible soul.”
The sisters will even face an enormous quantity of grief this season (no spoilers, in fact), which Sharon explains that many people will recognise as an “open wound” which within the case of the Dangerous Sisters ladies meant that “you’re ripe to be taken for a trip”.
Whereas scripting this season, she took a deep dive into the world of abuse (“I received method too closely into all of the podcasts, . I imply, clearly the form of Soiled John sort ones”) to do justice to the numerous survivors who reached out to her after the primary season of Dangerous Sisters aired in 2022.