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Genre | Thriller |
Created by | Olivia Milch |
Based on | The Better Sister by Alafair Burke |
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Music by | Will Bates |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 8 |
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Producer | James Crowell |
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Running time | 53–61 minutes |
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Network | Amazon Prime Video |
Release | May 29, 2025 |
The Better Sister is an American thriller television limited series created by Olivia Milch and starring Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks. Based on the 2019 novel by Alafair Burke, it premiered on May 29, 2025.
Two estranged sisters, one married to, and the other divorced from the same man, are forced together after he is murdered. [1]
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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1 | "She's My Sister" | Craig Gillespie | Olivia Milch | May 29, 2025 |
2 | "Lotta Sky" | Leslie Hope | Regina Corrado | May 29, 2025 |
3 | "Incoming Widow" | Leslie Hope | Ariel Doctoroff | May 29, 2025 |
4 | "Gazpacho" | Azazel Jacobs | Brittany Dushame & Lauren Stremmel | May 29, 2025 |
5 | "Just Ask" | Dawn Wilkinson | Regina Corrado | May 29, 2025 |
6 | "Steadying Hand" | Dawn Wilkinson | Olivia Milch | May 29, 2025 |
7 | "Back from Red" | Stephanie Laing | Regina Corrado | May 29, 2025 |
8 | "They're In Their World" | Stephanie Laing | Olivia Milch | May 29, 2025 |
The series is an adaptation by Olivia Milch and Regina Corrado of the 2019 novel The Better Sister by Alafair Burke. Burke acts as a consultant on the series which has Elizabeth Banks as co-star and executive producer via Brownstone Productions, and Jessica Biel as co-star and executive producer via Iron Ocean Films, along with Michelle Purple. Craig Gillespie will direct in addition to being an executive producer, along with Annie Marter through Fortunate Jack Productions. The series is a co-production between Tomorrow Studios and Amazon MGM Studios, with Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, and Alissa Bachner of Tomorrow Studios executive producing. [2]
In June 2024, Corey Stoll, Bobby Naderi, Kim Dickens and Maxwell Acee Donovan joined the cast. [3] [4]
Filming began in New York in June 2024, [5] [6] [7] and wrapped in October 2024. [8]
The series was released on Amazon Prime Video with all eight episodes on May 29, 2025. [9] [10]
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 70% approval rating based on 33 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "A dense mystery with nods towards moral ambiguity, Better Sister is too derivative for its surprises to properly land but gets a dramatic lift from the appealing pairing of Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel." [11] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, gave a score of 56 out of 100 based on 13 critics, indicating "mixed or average". [12]