This is a non-spoiler review for all six episodes of The Good Daughter, which premieres November 12 on Peacock.
Yes, another "Good" series has entered the chat (see also: Place, Wife, Fight, Doctor, Girls, more).
The Good Daughter, developed and written by Karin Slaughter and based on her own book, is an awesome Appalachian trauma drama. Starring Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus, Drop) as estranged sisters, both lawyers, trying to get to the bottom of a high school shooting in their nasty, crooked Georgia hometown, the series is quite riveting. The main mystery, involving the aforementioned shooter, has a decent enough resolution, but it's the two sisters themselves, and a massively tragic shared event from their childhood, that infuses the show with complexity and poignancy.
The Peacock series has all the ingredients you need for a cracking small town whodunit, from a great ensemble to old family feuds to haunted secrets. It checks many boxes. And while it occasionally lapses into mystery genre cliches, it has enough unique subversive elements to keep it from getting stuck in the mud.
The two sisters, Sam and Charlie Quinn, are the heart and spine of the story, and what helps elevate it over many of its homespun crime peers. It's easy to see the trope-y architecture of one sister having abandoned the town for the big city and the other staying behind, or that the one who now resides in Manhattan is rigid and the one keeping the home fires burning is a wild child.
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