"One-melodramatic, Hitchcockian at its best, Lifetime-hacky at its worst-follows all the most generic beats of the airport thriller, starting when Marissa (played by Succession's Sarah Snook) arrives to pick up her son, Milo, from a playdate at a house where, somehow, no children live and no one has ever heard of him. The other-sensitive, almost documentary-realist about the dynamics of modern parenting-deals with the fallout, as a community struggles to confront how such a nightmarish failure of safeguarding could have happened."
"I've rarely felt more frustrated with television than I have this year, watching hour after hour of humdrum wealth porn, self-indulgent maximalism, and turgid aimlessness. All Her Fault, initially, seemed to fall into the first category-it's based on a crime novel by the Irish writer Andrea Mara, it's set in an affluent suburb of Chicago (the series was filmed in Australia), and its trailer teases lies, dead bodies, and a minefield of familial conflict."
All Her Fault splits into two tonal strands: a melodramatic airport-thriller centered on a missing child and a sober, documentary-like exploration of parenting dynamics. The thriller begins when Marissa (Sarah Snook) finds her son Milo reportedly at a playdate in a house where no children live and no one recognizes him. The parenting strand tracks community fallout, policing, and the ways working parents navigate suspicion and responsibility. The series adapts Andrea Mara’s novel, is set in an affluent Chicago suburb (filmed in Australia), and was created and largely written by Megan Gallagher. Strong performances puncture an otherwise uneven, sometimes hokey narrative.
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