If you are considering watching Prime Video‘s new series The Better Sister, which stars the very likable duo of Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel, might I suggest you think again? Or at least consider reading this review before you start.
From the very first moment that Biel pops up on screen in Episode 1, the show feels evocative of a dozen murder mysteries that have come before. A wife walks into her home, shrouded in darkness, only to find her husband’s cold dead body lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Who did it? Who knows? But get ready to wait through nearly eight hours of television to find out.
The show follows the straight-laced and poised editor-in-chief of the fictional The Real Thing magazine, Chloe Taylor (Jessica Biel), who arrives home from a party one night to find her husband Adam (Corey Stoll) brutally stabbed to
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