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Claes Bang bared all while playing the most ghastly, smarmy creep John Paul, “The Prick,” on the TV series Bad Sisters. We’re talking literally, here, too—he showed his naked bum to the camera. In one scene, he laid in a coffin, dead, with an erection. And, in perhaps the trickiest acting challenge of the whole series, he was cruel to five of the sweetest women on planet earth. Playing a schmuck on the level of John Paul “JP” is no easy feat, but Bang rose to the (despicable) occasion.
It’s not a spoiler to say JP dies at the end of Bad Sisters. (Though, warning: There are spoilers ahead.) In fact, JP is dead in the very first scene of Sharon Horgan’s new dark comedy, returning throughout the series in flashbacks.
Over the last few episodes, the Apple TV+ series jumped between the past (in which JP wreaks havoc on his sisters-in-law, who plot to murder him in return) and the present (after JP is dead, the folks behind his life insurance try to figure out if he was murdered) for the past few weeks. (It’s also really funny, we swear!)