The Walsh Sisters is finally airing in Australia, and it's the chaotic yet warm series you've dreamed of.

If you're craving the feeling of being enveloped in a warm, chaotic, drama-plagued family unit filled with equal parts love and judgment, then you need to watch The Walsh Sisters.

The highly anticipated series premiered this week on Stan, and watching it feels very much like spending a holiday with your own family. Some of it is awkward and upsetting, most of it is familiar and comforting, but all of it is highly memorable.

The six-part series is based on the best-selling Marian Keyes' books which chronicle the stories of the Dublin-dwelling Walsh family, made up of Mammy and Daddy Walsh and their five adult daughters: Claire, Maggie, Anna, Rachel, and Helen.

At the start of the series, we are introduced to each of the Walsh family members, who all appear to be at huge turning points in their lives.

Anna (Louisa Harland) is madly in love and has just become engaged to a sweet man she has only known for a few months. Rachel (Caroline Menton) is in the throes of a secret drug addiction, which becomes less secret when her boyfriend Luke (Jay Duffy) calls an ambulance for her in the opening scenes. While Maggie (Stefanie Preissner) is the dependable sister holding the family together but is also yearning to fall pregnant.

Claire (Danielle Galligan) is a single mother going through a complicated divorce, while the youngest sister, Helen (Máiréad Tyers) is struggling with independence while still living at home with her parents (played by Carrie Crowley and Aidan Quinn in a stroke of incredible casting).

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The Walsh Sisters pulls together the storylines from some of Keyes' most beloved novels involving the complicated Walsh family, including Rachel's Holiday, Angels, and Anybody Out There. While many of the storylines remain true to the books, a slew of new plot twists and sequences have also been added in, with Helen's story in particular feeling different from the books.

If you're a die-hard fan of Marian Keyes and the Walsh family books, then you'll love seeing their stories adapted for the small screen and the talented cast that brings the characters we've grown to love from the pages to life.

At the same time, if you've never picked up a Marian Keyes novel and are unfamiliar with this loveable but drama-filled family, then you're in for a treat when you step into this world for the first time.

One of the most intriguing things about The Walsh Sisters series is how different it feels from so many other shows on TV that we are currently consuming. There are no gritty plot lines involving death and destruction, nor is this series coated in a layer of fantastical glamour.

The Walsh Sisters is a show that feels lived in, in the nicest possible way. The houses and apartments look like the places we would call home, the clothes feel like they would be hanging in our own closets, and the family dynamics play out like you're peering into the lives of your neighbours on any given Saturday afternoon.

This series is also a beautiful exploration of what it means to grow up with sisters, highlighting the camaraderie, drama, laughter, and the development of your own language that comes when you grow up in a house like this.

The Walsh Sisters is a sometimes sobering series that is filled with heart and warmth, and whether you're a longtime lover of Marian Keyes books or not, this is a series you should definitely add to your watch list.

All episodes of The Walsh Sisters are now screening on Stan.

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