‘Bad Sisters’ Recap: ‘Baby Becka’

Written by John Edward Betancourt

Caution: This article contains spoilers for Episode Four of ‘Bad Sisters’. To revisit the previous episode, click here.
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Often times, stories that revolve around the motives for murder, provide us with a supremely narrow focus as to who could have done this and why they could have done this. In large part to keep us focused out of the worry that perhaps too many clues and too many motivations might confuse. But also, because going that route could potentially be seen as sadistic and too dark. As thought the story is actually punishing the viewer by just unloading one ugly thought and ugly moment after another upon them. But as the Apple TV+ series, Bad Sisters, is showing us… it is okay to go hard with motive and suspect in a story, if the person that got their just desserts is an utterly rotten bastard through and through, and if we don’t fully understand everyone’s desire to cross the ultimate line.
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For the next episode in this fascinating dark comedy/murder mystery… once again showed us why so many people might have been motivated to put John Paul in the grave at an early age. But not before ‘Baby Becka’ showed us how complicated her life has become these days. Mainly because, despite doing her best to start something special with Matt, the hard fact that he works for the insurance company that needed to pay out for John Paul, came crashing into her reality in this tale. Since he and Tom showed up to interrogate her and that went… about as badly as one might expect. Because it made things incredibly awkward between these two love birds and of course, led to more frostiness between them over concerns about being honest.

But more importantly, it opened up the ol’ memory floodgates for Becka, and she was quick to remember how close she came to having her own Massage Studio. One that it actually appeared John Paul was going to help with. Since he offered business advice and basically offered up a loan to her since he seemed to believe that she was putting together a flawless business model. Which of course, put her over the moon and motivated her to sign the lease on the place that she has mentioned a few times now and for a moment there, it really seemed as though John Paul was turning a corner in this story. But alas, we know she did not get the place, and no one has good memories of that jerk, which allowed for this story to show us exactly how he burned Becka as well.

Because a few friendly messages and another massage for his mother, made him begin to think that somehow, she suddenly wasn’t a qualified massage therapist, and he basically pulled the deal out from under her. A move that broke her heart and sent her into a furious downward spiral and rightfully so. Because he lied to her and toyed with her and ruined hopes for the future. The kind that would take some time to heal and execute again. Not to mention, this move brought basically all of the sisters but Greta together to talk of their disdain for him and learn… what he did to Ursula, a move that basically was the last straw for Becka and she too… felt a need to indulge in murder at last. 

Of course, that doesn’t answer the big question, but what matters more here is that this episode made it clear… that this story is going to leave no stone unturned when it comes to its examination of what potentially drives people to murder. For we are finding some fascinating reasons here to commit to such an act, and well… now we know how every single sister viewed John Paul and we know their reasons for why they believed he should die. The only question that remains is… were they able to truly cross that line and commit the greatest sin of all against perhaps the greatest sinner ever? Time will tell. But while we wait to see if the Garvey sisters did indeed cross that line, we can bask in one quality tale. One that truly gave us more perspective and engaged us further since we are now dying to know… who did John Paul in?

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