The closeness between the sisters – mirrored offscreen with a WhatsApp group chat named “season two unhealthy bitches” which Sharon describes as “bratty” – will probably be examined this season, once they grapple with the aftermath and ripple impact of abuse.
“I wished it to have an actual purpose for present, and never similar to one for the cash,” Sharon tells me of the brand new chapter. The conclusion of season one felt fairly tied up, with too stunning a bow, virtually. 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 loss of life felt “rather more up my road” 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 girls are let down by the police, and by the help networks round them,” Sharon says, explaining how this opens the sisters as much as additional abuse. “They’re targets for the following unhealthy one that needs to reap the benefits of a susceptible soul.”
The sisters may also 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 girls meant that “you’re ripe to be taken for a trip”.
Whereas penning this season, she took a deep dive into the world of abuse (“I received approach too closely into all of the podcasts, you recognize. I imply, clearly the kind of Soiled John kind ones”) to do justice to the various survivors who reached out to her after the primary season of Dangerous Sisters aired in 2022.