This is in conversation from Apple News. I'm Shmita Basu. Today, how Sharon Horgan writes women for TV that feel real.

Earlier this year, a video of the actress Louisa Harland at an International Women's Day event was shared across the internet. Dear men, I want to thank you all for taking care of things for so long. You've done a great job.

Made some excellent art. Probably produced 95% of the movies and TV

that influenced me as a young girl in need of influencing.

She was reading a 2016 letter written by the actress, writer, director, and producer Sharon Horgan, entitled Dear Men.

Sharon wrote this at the launch of her production company, Murman, and in a very

Sharon way, it points to the urgent need to change the lack of diversity in the film and

TV industries. Just think to yourselves. If you tell the same story over and over, then what do you learn?

That 14 Spider-Man films in five years is a bad idea and yields diminishing box office numbers.

The letter speaks to what Sharon has been doing throughout her career, putting women's voices front and center.

And writing her characters with brutal honesty and humor,

without worrying that it might be too much for an audience.

Whether that's in her Amazon series, Catastrophe, where she co-starred with comedian Rob Delaney,

or her producing and writing on HBO's divorce, starring Sarah Jessica Parker.

Most recently, Sharon is the creator and a star of the show Bad Sisters on Apple TV Plus,

a dark comedy about a group of five Irish sisters who plot to kill their detestable brother-in-law.

People get killed every day.

How's that mean?

I mean, why not give nature a help in hand?

All our worries would be over.

Season two of Bad Sisters is out now.

So I sat down with Sharon to talk about it.

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