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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18 (UPI) — Writer and star Sharon Horgan said the antagonist of her new show, Bad Sisters, premiering Friday on Apple TV+, represents the worst of humanity.

Horgan, Sarah Greene, Eva Birthistle and Eve Hewson play sisters who band together to kill their other sister’s (Anne-Marie Duff) husband.

“He is the container of every bad human trait you could have,” Horgan, 52, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview. “Not just male trait — any human trait.”

John-Paul (Claes Bang), who is married to Grace (Duff), restricts Grace socially, humiliates her publicly and verbally abuses everyone around him.

Horgan called John-Paul “a bully and a coward and an idiot — a dangerous, vain piece of work.”

Bang, 55, who recently played the villain, Fjolnir, in the Viking epic, The Northman, said John-Paul is much more dangerous, noting that Fjolnir only murdered a king and usurped a kingdom, but at least he was honest about who he was.

“With this guy, he does not know that he’s vile, that he’s toxic,” Bang said. “He’s so much more dangerous because he ruins relationships and he ruins people.”

However, Horgan quickly added that she did not want John-Paul to be a one-dimensional villain. So, it was important to show him as a good father.

“He’s sometimes beautiful with his daughter, sometimes loving with his wife and respected at work,” Horgan said. “All of those little humanities, I think, make for more of a dangerous character because he could be your next-door neighbor or a family member.”

Duff, 51, said Grace is trapped in her marriage. Although she puts on a brave face, Duff suspects Grace knows deep down she’s being abused.

“She knows in her very calcium that she is trapped, but she refuses to believe it,” Duff said. “You may be stuck in hell, but you think, well, it’s so warm on this rock. Why do I want to leave? Because you don’t realize the freedom that lies outside of it.”

John-Paul also is responsible for physical injuries. Bibi (Greene) implies that he is the reason she lost her left eye and wears an eyepatch, although the explanation is coming in a later episode.

“I’m actually quite blind in my other eye,” said Greene, 38. “We didn’t realize that until the eyepatch went on. I was stuck with it.”

John-Paul also catches Ursula (Birthistle) having an affair and manipulates her with that knowledge. Birthistle, 48, said she’s witnessed friends escape domineering partners, but that Bad Sisters escalated John-Paul’s behavior.

“Gaslighting, for example, is something that unfortunately most of us have experienced, male or female, in relationships,” Birthistle said. “We’ve all had friends we’ve realized had partners, ex-partners now, thankfully, who were not desirable.”

Horgan previously dealt with relationships in trouble when she created the original half-hour comedies Catastrophe, Divorce and Shining Vale. Bad Sisters is based on the Belgian series, Clan.

Horgan had adapted a short story for an episode of Modern Love. She said she considers Bad Sisters her first adaptation, among other new territories.

“I’ve never made a thriller before,” Horgan said. “I’ve never made an hour of anything before, so it was all new to me.”

Bad Sisters begins with John-Paul’s funeral. Then, it flashes back to six months to show how he died.

The sisters plot various types of murders, most of which fail. Horgan said she reduced the number of attempted murders in her adaptation.

“I wanted there to be half the number of dead bodies, but twice the amount of fallout for the sisters,” Horgan said. “There are only so many ways you can try and kill a man and feasibly get away with it.”

The title change came because Horgan was worried about the negative connotations of Clan in the United States. However, Bad Sisters defined her adaptation more accurately, Horgan said.

“I quite like the moral ambiguity of it,” she said. “What they are doing is, on paper, bad, but they are very good sisters. And they’re badass.”

Plotting to murder John-Paul bonds Bibi, Ursula, Eva (Horgan) and Becka (Hewson) closer together at first. But then, it causes new problems.

“They all, at some points, jeopardize the whole situation in some form or other by leaving a bit of evidence, by saying too much, by being in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Birthistle said. “So, their relationships get tested as a result.”

Horgan still found room for comedy in Bad Sisters, but that comedy becomes more macabre because the subject is abuse and murder.

“What was challenging was where to do it. It was when and where, because I didn’t want to belittle the subject matter,” Horgan said. “I didn’t want to belittle what was happening to Grace at the heart of this.

“But at the same time, it’s a bit of a romp. It’s sort of funny, inherently, in its premise.”

Some such humor includes John-Paul’s funeral. In the first scene of the show, Grace discovers he died with an erection, and she tries to cover it.

“Everyone had an opinion,” Duff said. “I seem to remember a lot of people peering into the coffin, making adjustments.”

New episodes of Bad Sisters premiere Fridays on Apple TV+.

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Did Dr. Anna Pou, a surgeon at what was then known as Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans, get “Sully”-ed? Was she a valiant physician undeserving of attacks on her ethical character and crisis management? Or, in the cruel aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, did she cross every known ethical, medical and legal line?

“Five Days at Memorial,” the eight-part limited series now streaming on Apple TV+, dramatizes many more questions and real-life characters. The series unfolds against a larger maelstrom of gutless mismanagement and abdication of responsibility on the federal, state and city levels in the wake of Katrina.

The floodwaters that breached the levees left so many, betrayed and isolated, to die. What happened in this particular building — 45 corpses were found days later in the hospital chapel — is both a lament and a warning to those who will face the next Category 5 hurricane.

Warning: While often gripping, the series, covering a nearly two-year time span, is not the propulsive “ER”-style experience promised by the trailer. The first five episodes, broken down neatly by Day One, Day Two etc., constitute a stark drama of waiting. Waiting for floodwaters to recede; for power and hope to be restored; for privatized health care administrators to do the right thing.

The final three episodes shift gears into the story of how Louisiana Department of Justice officials investigated the events involving Dr. Pou, played by top-billed Vera Farmiga, and her colleagues under barely imaginable duress. What makes “Five Days at Memorial” worth seeing, in a cold-creeps way, is its emphasis not on nobility or venality but everything in between. Series creators, writers and (splitting the first five episodes) directors John Ridley and Carlton Cuse aren’t trying to do “Katrina: The Limited Series.” They use Memorial as a metaphor for the entire Katrina tragedy.

The series is based on Sheri Fink’s 2013 book “Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital.” (The hospital is now the Ochsner Baptist Medical Center.) Ridley and Cuse make the necessary character intros speedily and well in episode one. With the hurricane six hours away, Pou is planning for an inconvenience of “three days at the most.”

On the upper floors of Memorial, a separate, for-profit hospital, LifeCare, is overseen by the very pregnant Diane Robichaux (Julie Ann Emery). Cherry Jones, splendidly honest and dimensionally moving as always, portrays her Memorial counterpart, Susan Mulderick. They’re nominally in charge of disaster preparedness. At one eerie point in “Five Days at Memorial,” Mulderick desperately flips through a manual, searching for the hurricane scenario that does not exist.

The storm hits, the floodwaters rise and then, on Day Two, recede. But then the levees give way, and conditions become a nightmare. The long-delayed helicopter rescues of patients require many flights of stairs inside the building (the power’s out) and then, on the roof, two sets of rickety metal stairways up to a helipad that has not been used in nearly two decades.

Other key characters, notably Pou’s colleague Dr. Bryant King (Cornelius Smith Jr.) and registered nurse Karen Wynn (Adepero Oduye), become the viewer’s eyes and ears. As “Five Days at Memorial” proceeds, the conditions of those stranded in a sweltering, malfunctioning hospital mirror what’s happening mostly off camera.

Adepero Oduye and Cherry Jones costar in “Five Days at Memorial,” the limited series premiering Aug. 12 on Apple TV Plus. (Russ Martin / HANDOUT)

Though hardly the fault of Wendey Stanzler, who directed episodes six, seven and eight, the series as written morphs into a very different affair after episode five. An assistant Attorney General Arthur “Butch” Schafer (Michael Gaston, excellent) and his Medicaid Fraud Unit colleague Virginia Rider (Molly Hager) learn that some patients did not die of natural causes. At this point “Five Days at Memorial” goes into full legal procedural, with a simple mystery to be solved, centered mostly on Pou’s actions.

These later episodes of “Five Days at Memorial” favor spooky, vaguely Expressionistic flashbacks where we learn what really went down. They’re a bit much. Now and then, the series blows its budgetary wad on conspicuous digital depictions of horrific destruction, including the roof blowing off the Louisiana Superdome. These tactics have a way of distancing, rather than intensifying, the human drama Ridley and Cuse achieve successfully elsewhere.

“Corporate is doing everything they can,” Mulderick reassures a colleague at one point, and the way Jones murmurs that line, you hear tiny warning bells of despair. What an actress! So is Farmiga, who does everything she can to complicate her character’s motives and actions, even when the series makes up its mind about Dr. Pou so we don’t have to.

“Five Days at Memorial” — 3 stars (out of 4)

Content rating: TV-MA (language, thematic elements)

Running time: Eight episodes, approximately seven hours total

How to watch: Premieres Aug. 12 on Apple TV Plus

Michael Phillips is a Tribune critic.

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The Philadelphia Phillies play the New York Mets on Apple TV+ at 6:25 PM EST tonight. Here’s how to watch.

How to watch the Philadelphia Phillies at New York Mets game on Apple TV+

You can watch the Philadelphia Phillies at New York Mets game on Apple TV+ by following this link:

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When you arrive at tv.apple.com, just look for the Friday Night Baseball section at the bottom, which will include listings for each live game.

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When you’re there, you can simply tap or click on the game’s icon to start your viewing. If you’re in the app on any compatible device, simply launch the TV+ app and select the game in order to watch it. You may need to swipe left in the Apple TV+ app to see Friday Night Baseball. The game will only be live-streamed, meaning pause, fast-forward, and other playback controls will not be available.

You can also access Apple TV+ games from the MLB.TV app, which will redirect you to the Apple TV app if the game is available where you live.

What time is Philadelphia Phillies at New York Mets game on Apple TV+?

Tonight’s game will take place at 6:25 pm ET on Friday, August 12. 

Do I have to pay for Apple TV+ to watch the Philadelphia Phillies at New York Mets?

No tonight’s game, and indeed all baseball on Apple TV+ is free for this season. 

What devices can I watch the Philadelphia Phillies at New York Mets on Apple TV+ with?

• iPhone
• iPad
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• Mac
• Apple TV 4K & HD
• Smart TVs with the Apple TV/TV+ app including Samsung, LG, Panasonic, and Sony
• PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles
• Cable set-top boxes
• Amazon Fire TV and Roku devices
• Chromecast with Google TV
• Online at tv.apple.com with any internet-capable device

Where is the Philadelphia Phillies at New York Mets game being broadcast?

The game is being shown in the U.S., Canada, UK, Australia, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Germany, and Italy

Can I use a VPN to watch the Philadelphia Phillies at New York Mets on Apple TV+?

Apple is broadcasting its baseball games in the nine aforementioned countries. While a VPN might be your best friend for other streaming services, it is almost certain that Apple’s regional restrictions will not allow for this workaround, because they are based on your Apple ID location.

Do I need an Apple ID to watch the Philadelphia Phillies at New York Mets on Apple TV+?

Yes, while the first 24 Friday Night Baseball games are being shown for free on Apple TV+, you will need an Apple ID to log in and access the service. You can review our guide on how to create a new Apple ID here. Users do not need to enter any payment information to watch the game.

Can I watch the Philadelphia Phillies at New York Mets on cable?

No. The game is not available on any cable station or MLB.TV. It is exclusive to Apple TV+.

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