All Her Fault on Peacock

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I thought it was so bad! So cheesy and hard to believe. A waste of a great cast.

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This ended up being a dumb show. Peter is on the phone with the police and hangs up when Carrie walks in with a gun? How stupid.

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I’m only halfway through but I’m enjoying it. Not gory, no torture. The kidnappers are said to have some redeeming traits, I guess to tell us that we won’t be dealing with a dead kid later on. So an interesting mystery without too much stress.

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Anonymous wrote:This ended up being a dumb show. Peter is on the phone with the police and hangs up when Carrie walks in with a gun? How stupid.

maybe he was smart enough to realize that he wanted to kill her before the police got there?

also, it is unclear to me whether he actually hung up on the police

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This ended up being a dumb show. Peter is on the phone with the police and hangs up when Carrie walks in with a gun? How stupid.

maybe he was smart enough to realize that he wanted to kill her before the police got there?

also, it is unclear to me whether he actually hung up on the police

ooo good point. I wrote that too soon.

He definitely hung up though.

Despite a dumb show, Sarah Snook is incredible!

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Anonymous wrote:First half was intriguing, second half went off the rails. It made more sense when I saw that the series was based on a book set in Ireland because some of it hinges on sibling relationships that are really not plausible for a. American family.

It seemed like it was written, directed, produced by 2 different groups. The first several episodes were interesting and the twists kept it going but by the last episodes it was utter junk.

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Why are people talking about a second season. Is there someone else that needs to be killed? Crazy.

It didn't just jump the shark, it jumped a multitude of pods of sharks.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought it was so bad! So cheesy and hard to believe. A waste of a great cast.

I just couldn't in the episode with the detective, his wife, and their special needs son. "There are so few open spaces in the school he deserves to attend. I'll do anything to get him in. Anything." And then *BOOM* five minutes later the detective is offered the anything. Just like that! Thing is, he has to compromise his ideals and put his job in danger to do so. Oh well.

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Anonymous wrote:Stars Sarah Snook. One ep in, pretty meh on it so far. Anyone else watching?

I’ve done three episodes and like it! The plot is thickening!

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Anonymous wrote:Stars Sarah Snook. One ep in, pretty meh on it so far. Anyone else watching?

Am halfway in and truly wondering if it’s all her fault- married a loser, went into work partnership with an addict, nanny was hoodwinked, new bestie is ???, school lets other pick up people pick up someone else’s kid with no formal notice, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Stars Sarah Snook. One ep in, pretty meh on it so far. Anyone else watching?

Am halfway in and truly wondering if it’s all her fault- married a loser, went into work partnership with an addict, nanny was hoodwinked, new bestie is ???, school lets other pick up people pick up someone else’s kid with no formal notice, etc.

How was Peter a loser?

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Really gripping first couple of episodes. My interest waned around episode 5 or 6. Not a big spoiler, but generally, how many times can Marissa find out someone lied, and then they immediately admit it and tell her their entire justification, and she just accepts it without going to the cops?

It got really goofy when they went into the background of what happened.

Loved the final twist, though. That kinda saved it.

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Anonymous wrote:I absolutely loved it. I found it so bingeable. I won’t give spoilers, but I found some of the side plots distracting. Like I didn’t really care so much about the backstory with peters’s family. I get that some of it was to paint the full picture of what is going on, but I would’ve loved to skip over some of those parts.

I mean is the whole thing really plausible? Again no spoilers but some of it was clearly far-fetched and you had to take it with a grain of salt, but I found it really entertaining. I also just really loved Dakota Fanning and some of her diatribes to her husband.

Agree. Well done. Really branched out into a psycho thriller.

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Anonymous wrote:I absolutely loved it. I found it so bingeable. I won’t give spoilers, but I found some of the side plots distracting. Like I didn’t really care so much about the backstory with peters’s family. I get that some of it was to paint the full picture of what is going on, but I would’ve loved to skip over some of those parts.

I mean is the whole thing really plausible? Again no spoilers but some of it was clearly far-fetched and you had to take it with a grain of salt, but I found it really entertaining. I also just really loved Dakota Fanning and some of her diatribes to her husband.

This is the problem with shows that have 1 release day. I can't google the show for ANY reason because I know I'll see spoilers. I can't even open this thread for fear of seeing a spoiler. And when can I start discussing it? Weeks after I've watched it? This show had so much potential to be a talked about show.

Finished it! Did more than one episode an evening it was that good and suspenseful.

Now I can go read the times review, etc .

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Anonymous wrote:The entire flashback sequence to the Irvine parents bringing Milo home from the hospital and dealing with night wake ups was soooo relatable. I think this is episode 2 or 3? I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but this isn't spoiler-y for the kidnapping plot.

There is an exchange where Marissa is totally sleep deprived and at the end of her rope and Peter is trying to be supportive but also taking zero personal responsibility for figuring out the problem with sleep. He's like "why don't you sleep when Milo sleeps during the day?" and she tells him that's the only time she can get anything done all day.

And then she kind of goes off on him and says look, we aren't the first people to deal with this problem, there must be guidance on sleep training or how to make this easier, I'm sure there are books and experts, can you please just help figure this out. And Peter just looks at her and says, "Yes, I want to help. Just tell me what to do."

And the next shot is Marissa reading the books and doing research online and a montage of her figuring out sleep training and then cutting to Milo sleeping through the night and Marissa and Peter waking up after a decent night's sleep. And Peter is like "good work, look at that -- you can do anything." And Marissa doesn't look like she wants to kill him, but also... well if you are a mom who has experienced this EXACT sequence of events, you know how she feels.

I think this is what this show is about and they are nailing those moments. All the phone calls between Dakota Fanning's character and her husband asking him to help out with his own son so she can attend a work meeting or meet a client. And the way he kind of rolls his eyes at her career goals and points out that it won't even result in a higher salary so what's the point. Meanwhile he is a school teacher and clearly makes very little AND has a schedule that should be more conducive to being the primary parent but he's somehow not? I know families exactly like this. Exactly. And you know if the roles were reversed and the mom was the teacher and the dad had the kind of demanding but more prestigious job, that mom would be handling everything at home.

The kidnapping plot is unrealistic and a lot of the twists are soapy but the show is doing a good job of highlighting these little tensions at the heart of reasonably functional, happy marriages but where women still get this raw deal because we still just let men off the hook when it comes to parenting and the men are not even malicious about it, it's just a death by a thousand cuts as women pick up all the little loose ends and men don't really think about them at all.

Maybe, but they appear to be making SO much money, like millions a year. If the parents were being woken up multiple times a night, they would 100% hire help. Like a live-in nanny.

Agree. Someone with a $5m house in Wilmette which also has $80k a year property taxes, they would have had a night nurse for three mos.