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The Better Sister Goes a Step Beyond
By expanding a character to be worthy of a Kim Dickens performance, the miniseries improves upon both its source material and its subgenre.
She’s got all the stereotypical qualities of a grizzled old (male) dick, but as Guidry investigates the suspicious Taylor sisters, Dickens gives the character a distinctly feminine bent — in the buttons she knows to push between the women and the familial fault lines regarding their roles as mothers she knows to prod at. To round out the story and make it worthy of eight hour-long episodes, Milch, Corrado, and their creative team (including director Craig Gillespie, patron saint of troubled and troublesome women in United States of Tara, I, Tonya, and Pam & Tommy) bulk up the narrative through character. And in a fascinating monologue that Dickens delivers with just enough ambiguity to make you wonder whether any cop can actually be a good person, Guidry reveals that years before, she mistook a Black man for a suspect they were chasing, cornered him in an alley, got the crap beaten out of her, and then participated in attacking him when her fellow officers caught up with them.
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