Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks are sisters with a twisted past who find themselves at the center of a scandal in The Better Sister.
The Prime Video limited series, which is based on Alafair Burke’s bestselling book of the same name, sees the two powerhouse actresses pitted against each other when their shared husband — Banks’ ex and Biel’s current partner — winds up murdered.
As the whodunnit unfolds, the messy history Chloe (Biel) and Nicky (Banks) share with their dead husband Adam (Corey Stoll) makes them both look like suspects — but so, too, does their son Ethan (Maxwell Acee Donovan).
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In the trailer for the eight-episode series, which dropped on April 30, Chloe comes home to her husband lying in a pool of his own blood, leaving two Hamptons detectives (Kim Dickens and Bobby Naderi) with a major case on their hands.
“My husband has been murdered and my sister is here and though I am feeling anxiety about this, I release it,” Chloe tells herself in the mirror while going through the motions of what looks like an anxiety coping mechanism as the trailer begins.
The sisters’ complicated past makes everything harder, as the truth about Ethan — Nicky and Adam’s son, who Chloe has raised with Adam amid her sister’s addiction issues — and their messy family dynamic is revealed.
As Detective Guidry (Dickens) puts it, bluntly, to Chloe: “What a crazy turn — the world knowing you stole your sister’s life.”
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Elizabeth Banks as Nicky Taylor, Jessica Biel as Chloe Taylor in ‘The Better Sister’
When Ethan ends up on the stand, accused of murdering Adam, everything escalates even more.
“Whatever’s happened between you two in the past, Ethan is in real trouble now,” attorney Michelle Sanders (Gloria Reuben) tells Nicky and Chloe in the trailer, as their son goes on trial for the murder of his father. “You wanna protect him? Tell me everything.”
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In court, the prosecution puts it plainly: “Keeping secrets and leading double lives — this is what your family is about.”
Tensions continue to rise between the sisters, and Chloe gets brutally honest with Nicky. “Your life is s—– because it is built on the bad decisions that you have made,” she tells her estranged sister, who hits back with: “Your life is a lie.”
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Elizabeth Banks as Nicky Taylor, Maxwell Acee Donovan as Ethan Macintosh in ‘The Better Sister’
“Sometimes we dig,” Matthew Modine warns as the trailer comes to an end. “We don’t like what we find.”
Along with Biel, Banks, Stoll, Acee Donovan, Dickens, Reuben and Modine, Gabriel Sloyer and Lorraine Toussaint also star in the limited series.
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Jessica Biel as Chloe Taylor, Elizabeth Banks as Nicky Taylor in ‘The Better Sister’
Per the official logline, The Better Sister sees Chloe and Nicky reunite “as they try to untangle a complicated family history to discover the truth behind” the death of their somewhat shared husband Adam, with whom “high-profile media executive” Chloe was previously living a “picturesque life” with.
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The Better Sister premieres May 29 on Prime Video.
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