Bad Sisters – Season 2 Episode 5 “Boom” Recap & Review

Boom

In Bad Sisters Season 2 Episode 5, Eva opens up to her menopause coach, Eileen, about aging and missing Grace. She feels guilty for not preventing it.

When they part ways, Eileen reveals she has a new client: Angelica. That can’t be a coincidence.

The detectives question Eva about the money Grace took out. Houlihan learns that Eva thinks Ian and Grace met at a bereavement group after Ian lost his sister, but Ian told them they met online.

After they leave, Eva opens up a package. It’s a karaoke machine Grace picked out for her birthday before she died.

They decide they’ll clean out Eva’s hearth and give Angelica the ashes to scatter instead of Grace’s remains.

They make plans with her to take a boat tomorrow and scatter her ashes at sea. Angelica then accuses Eva of acting inappropriately with Ian and not respecting Grace’s memory.

Houlihan returns Grace’s personal items to Ian, taking the opportunity to question him. Ian clarifies he and Grace met online before they met in person at the bereavement group. She asks if it helped, and he replies that Angelica tends to feed off others’ grief.

Loftus’ daughter Jess tells him she doesn’t want to go to Australia. She’d rather stay with her dad. He calls Nadine to tell her he’s going to fight her for custody. Now he’ll have to scrounge up the money to do so.

Ian comforts Eva in her birthday grief and gives her a present of new slippers. She tells him what Angelica said about not feeling safe around him. He admits he stupidly lost it with her when he told her to leave them alone. 

Eva then tells Blanaid not to go over to Angelica’s anymore, but she insists she’ll do what she wants.

The sisters hold a surprise party for Eva that night, and Roger stops by to ask out the birthday girl. It’s no surprise that she declines.

After everyone else leaves and the sisters are cleaning up, Becka reveals she’s pregnant but that she doesn’t know what she’s going to do yet. She apologizes to Bibi, and they hug while they all sing karaoke in honor of Grace.

The next morning, they all meet Angelica at the pier, but she isn’t there. And Eva can’t find Blanaid. The teen went to see Angelica, but not knowing this, Eva panics. 

Houlihan theorizes that Ian has been looking for the money Grace took out. She doesn’t buy that Grace’s death was a matter of a simple collision. The detective thinks she could have been in an abusive relationship. It would make sense that she had a secret stash in case she ever needed to run. Loftus says he’ll look into it.

And look into it he does. But when he finds the money in Grace’s turtle pen, he pockets it for himself.

After looking around for Blanaid everywhere, Eva goes to the police to file a missing persons report. Loftus and Houlihan pull her aside, and she tells the detectives that people she can’t trust are around Blanaid. Houlihan thinks she means Ian, but she shares that she means Angelica and her theory she was blackmailing Grace.

Eventually, Blanaid turns up at home. It turns out she was just shopping with some money Angelica had given her. She yells at Eva for making a show of looking for her and tells her she’s not her mother.

Ian thinks she overreacted too. Eva cries, claiming it’s too hard and she doesn’t think she can do it, so Ian suddenly changes his tune and comforts her. He kisses her, but Eva apologizes afterward and walks away.

Finally, Angelica arrives at the pier. She spreads what she thinks are Grace’s ashes into the ocean. She then shares that Blanaid came to her this morning, and the sisters warn her to stay away from her.

But Angelica has a hard time keeping her nose out of others’ business. She claims that Eva is too busy making a play for Ian to care about Blanaid. She says she did the same with John Paul. The Garvey sisters protest, telling her JP raped Eva. Angelica calls that a “convenient tale.” She says Ian is not to be trusted.

Just when she’s about to tell them why, the boom suddenly comes crashing down and knocks her into the water. Unable to reach the coastguard, they try to recover her themselves. Becka dives in and swims for her, but it’s too late. They’ve lost her.

The Episode Review

My heart broke for Eva as she listened to “Happy Birthday” on the karaoke machine, knowing she’d never share another birthday with Grace again. I just wish we could have sat with that moment a bit longer, but I love how it comes around later to a bittersweet catharsis when all the sisters sing karaoke in Grace’s memory.

What a rollercoaster of emotions this episode brings. It was sweet and sad and dark and funny. And it dropped the biggest bomb with that shocking ending.

I was genuinely hoping Angelica would fall off that boat after that disgusting remark about Eva making a play for JP! But I wasn’t expecting it to actually happen. I’m not sad she died, but if this isn’t going to make more trouble for the Garveys….