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[The following story contains spoilers from the Prime Video limited series The Better Sister.]

When the execs at production company Tomorrow Studios were talking to people about producing a TV adaptation of Alafair Burke’s The Better Sister, they would ask prospective partners after reading the first episode who they thought was behind the story’s central murder mystery of who killed Adam Macintosh, played in the Prime Video limited series by Corey Stoll.

“People had different answers,” Tomorrow Studios president and Better Sister executive producer Becky Clements told The Hollywood Reporter at The Better Sister‘s New York premiere last month. “And for us that was perfect, because you wouldn’t be able to predict.”

Even the Better Sister actors were surprised when they learned who did it, despite helping to realize the narrative.

“I was shocked because they put so many twists and turns,” Maxwell Acee Donovan, who plays Adam’s son and murder suspect, Ethan Macintosh. “Even after...

The Better Sister's wild ending led fans to question who killed Jake Rodriguez (Gabriel Sloyer) after he was caught up in an unexpected twist. Amazon Prime Video's new thriller drama followed the story of two estranged sisters, Chloe (Jessica Biel) and Nicky (Elizabeth Banks), who unexpectedly reunited after Chloe's husband and Nicky's ex, Adam Macintosh (played by Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania star Corey Stoll), ended up dead.

The identity of Adam's killer is central to The Better Sister's mystery, but the series has a deeper conspiracy hidden within its narrative that affects its characters, such as Jake. The Better Sister is an eight-episode series from Prime Video that has a star-studded cast led by Jessica Biel, Elizabeth Banks, Corey Stoll, Kim Dickens, Maxwell Acee Donovan, Gloria Reuben, and Gabriel Sloyer. 

What Happened to Jake Rodriguez in The Better Sister Read full article on The Direct.

In the latest murder-mystery limited drama series, estranged sisters, played by Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks, put their pasts on hold to handle a bigger dilemma: a murder.

“The Better Sister,” based on the bestselling novel of the same name, premiered on Prime Video Thursday. When Chloe (Biel) finds her partner Adam in a pool of his own blood in their Hamptons house, her life turns upside down. She is forced to reunite with her estranged sister Nicky (Banks), who happens to be Adam’s ex-wife. This messy situation is heightened by the fact that Chloe and her adoptive son Ethan, who is also Nicky’s biological son, are the prime suspects in the murder case.

In addition to starring in the limited series, Biel and Banks executive produced, alongside showrunners Olivia Milch and Regina Corrado for Tomorrow Studios.

Keep reading for the full cast of this limited series

Jessica...

Messy family drama can make for very entertaining storytelling, especially if there's any kind of crime involved. In the new Prime Video limited series "The Better Sister," based on the novel of the same name by Alafair Burke, family secrets become very public fodder when lawyer, father, and husband Adam Macintosh (Corey Stoll) is brutally murdered. Now his wife Chloe (Jessica Biel), the editor-in-chief of a fictional magazine, is left to pick up the pieces and potentially try to clear her own name. There's just one problem: her husband Adam is also her estranged sister Nicky's (Elizabeth Banks) ex-husband, and she's been raising Nicky and Adam's son Ethan (Maxwell Acee Donovan) almost as if he were her own. Ugly family secrets being revealed could derail what's left of Chloe's perfect little life, and now she will have to fight for it all. 

The series was created by Craig Gillespie, who...

Sometimes, you have to wonder about the universe’s sense of timing.

Take, for instance, the launch of The Better Sister, the new Prime Video limited series where Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks play a pair of financially and socially disparate sisters in crisis. The series comes a week after the launch of Sirens, another limited series on Netflix about a pair of financially and socially disparate sisters in crisis, played by Meghann Fahy and Milly Alcock.

While likely a quirk of advantageous late-spring programming, comparisons between the two series are inevitable, especially concerning how they handle their respective sisterly relationships. This coincidence may even suggest a trend, as Hollywood grapples with what stories resonate in the evolving post-streaming era.

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What’s most fascinating about this likely...

The Better Sister’s ending is a memorable one, especially for those who share a positive bond with their sisters. The 8-part series follows the story of estranged sisters Chloe and Nicole, who are forced into proximity after Chloe’s husband, who also happens to be Nicole’s ex, ends up dead in their out-of-city home one night. The big mystery of the show might be “Who killed Adam?” but the answer to that does become quite predictable right off the bat; however, I suppose the big mystery might really be “Who killed Jake Rodriguez?” instead. Also, if your question is, which one’s the better sister? Well, I hope you have an answer to that question, but I’ll definitely try to put down my thoughts on that as well. At the end of episode 7, we learn who killed Adam, but why did they do it, and what did...

Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks star as siblings with a complicated relationship in Prime Video’s The Better Sister. Based on Alafair Burke’s bestselling novel, the limited series will release all eight episodes on May 29, 2025.

“Chloe, a high-profile media executive, lives a picturesque life with her handsome lawyer husband Adam and teenage son Ethan by her side while her estranged sister Nicky struggles to make ends meet and stay clean,” reads Prime Video’s synopsis. “When Adam is brutally murdered, the prime suspect sends shockwaves through the family, reuniting the two sisters as they try to untangle a complicated family history to discover the truth behind his death.”

Jessica Biel stars as Chloe Taylor, Elizabeth Banks is Nicky Macintosh, and Corey Stoll is Adam Macintosh. Kim Dickens plays Detective Nancy Guidry, Maxwell Acee Donovan is Ethan Macintosh, Bobby Naderi is Detective Matt Bowen, Gabriel Sloyer is Jake Rodriguez, Gloria Reuben plays Michelle Sander,...

Today, Prime Video released the official trailer and key art for the upcoming thrilling crime drama The Better Sister, starring Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks.

All eight episodes of the limited series produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Tomorrow Studios (part of ITV Studios) will premiere on Thursday, May 29, 2025, on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

The Better Sister, based on the book by bestselling author Alafair Burke, is an 8-episode electric thriller limited series about the terrible things that drive sisters apart and ultimately bring them back together.

Chloe (Jessica Biel), a high-profile media executive, lives a picturesque life with her handsome lawyer husband Adam (Corey Stoll) and teenage son Ethan (Maxwell Acee Donovan) by her side while her estranged sister Nicky (Elizabeth Banks) struggles to make ends meet and stay clean.

When Adam is brutally murdered, the prime suspect sends shockwaves through the family, reuniting...

Prime Video released the trailer for its upcoming series The Better Sister starring Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks, this morning.

“My husband has been murdered, and my sister is here,” Biel’s Chloe says at the beginning of the clip. “And though I am feeling anxiety about this, I release it.”

This mantra, accompanied with a facial tapping technique, is interspersed with a shot of Chloe Taylor’s husband Adam Macintosh (Corey Stoll) at a fancy gala of some sort applauding her as she receives an award or some kind of recognition. Banks’ Nicky Macintosh is also seen wandering Chloe’s house. An anguished Chloe bending over her kitchen sink does not affirm the release of all this tension she has just dictated.

The trailer only gets twistier as Chloe’s discovery of her dead husband unfolds, leading to her taking mugshots in a white dress smothered in blood.

The Better Sister,...

Attention all thriller enthusiasts! Prime Video is set to release an exciting new thriller series that will instantly pique your interest once you discover all the details. It's titled The Better Sister, and we've shared all there is to know about it right below.

The announcement of this new series came in May 2024, revealing that Emmy nominees Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel would be starring together. This marks their first collaboration, so it'll be interesting to see how their dynamic plays out on screen. While Banks has taken on some serious roles in her career, she's most known for her work in comedy. You might've watched her in the comedy movies The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Fred Claus, Meet Dave, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Role Models, Our Idiot Brother and all three Pitch Perfect films. She most recently starred in the thriller flick Skincare. Besides The Better Sister, we'll see...

Today, Prime Video revealed the premiere date and first look of the highly anticipated series The Better Sister, starring Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks, with six images of the thrilling crime drama.

All eight episodes of the limited series produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Tomorrow Studios (part of ITV Studios) will premiere on Thursday, May 29, 2025, on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

The Better Sister, based on the book by bestselling author Alafair Burke, is an eight-episode electric thriller limited series about the terrible things that drive sisters apart and ultimately bring them back together.

Chloe (Jessica Biel), a high-profile media executive, lives a picturesque life with her handsome lawyer husband Adam (Corey Stoll) and teenage son Ethan (Maxwell Acee Donovan) by her side while her estranged sister Nicky (Elizabeth Banks) struggles to make ends meet and stay clean.

When Adam is brutally murdered, the prime...

Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel in ‘The Better Sister’ (Photo Credit: Jojo Whilden © Amazon Content Services LLC)

Prime Video’s set a May 29, 2025 premiere date for The Better Sister starring and executive produced by Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks. The streamer also released the first photos from the eight-episode limited series based on Alafair Burke’s bestselling novel.

Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks lead the cast as Chloe Taylor and Nicky Macintosh, respectively. Corey Stoll plays Adam Macintosh, Kim Dickens is Detective Nancy Guidry, Maxwell Acee Donovan is Ethan Macintosh, and Bobby Naderi plays Detective Matt Bowen. Gabriel Sloyer stars as Jake Rodriguez, Gloria Reuben is Michelle Sanders, Matthew Modine is Bill Braddock, and Lorraine Toussaint plays Catherine Lancaster.

Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks star and executive produce (Photo Credit: Jojo Whilden © Amazon Content Services LLC)

“Chloe (Biel), a high-profile media executive, lives a picturesque life with her handsome lawyer...