'The Better Sister' Review: Your Summer Mystery Binge Drop With Bill Simmons and Joanna Robinson

The Prestige TV Podcast

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Bill and Joanna visit the Hamptons to recap all eight episodes of ‘The Better Sister,’ the Prime Video thriller starring Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel. (0:00) Intro (1:21) Why the limited series works surprisingly well (5:44) The TV whodunit playbook (7:28) Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks’s performances (19:54) The ghost conversations (21:36) **SPOILERS** Email us! [email protected] Subscribe to the Ringer TV YouTube channel here for full episodes of ‘The Prestige TV Podcast’ and so much more! Hosts: Bill Simmons and Joanna Robinson Producers: Kai Grady and Donnie Beacham Jr. Additional Production Support: Justin Sayles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:25.2	I'm Bill Simmons. I'm with Joanna Robinson.
1:27.1	We watched The Better Sister on Amazon, a show that we did not intend to cover.
1:31.9	Correct.
1:32.4	On the Prestige TV podcast.
1:34.1	But then I started watching over the weekend, and I texted Joanne and Rob,
1:37.8	we get you guys in on this show.
1:39.4	Rob was too cool for school for it.
1:42.8	You know, he's a little busy right now, I think.
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