Blue Sisters

When this story about four sisters begins, we learn Nicky unexpectedly died a year ago. She was the sister who held all of them together and Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky haven’t known how to connect without her. Their parents are ready to sell the NYC apartment where their daughter lived and died, leading to the sisters returning home to stop the sale. Mellors says she took inspiration from the movie The Royal Tenenbaums, where each family member was extraordinary in their own way but they couldn’t gel as a family unit. We see characters acting in self-destructive ways but we also see them finding their way to a better, more solid place with themselves and with each other. I appreciated how Mellors examines addiction, sobriety, and ambition in a way that feels true to life.