- Network: Peacock
- Series Premiere Date: Nov 6, 2025
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There’s nothing actually wrong with All Her Fault. But we’re just so tired of these kinds of thrillers that we just don’t have the energy to spare watching rich people in nice kitchens trying to keep their secrets from getting out.
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“Apples Never Fall” had a breeziness that’s sorely lacking in “All Her Fault,” which doesn’t land any incisive points about parenting, class, codependency or hired child care but does get bogged down trying to make them.
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Snook and Fanning deliver memorable and strong performances, but they can't save a series that's a bit too smug about its gotcha moments and less concerned about weaving a compelling narrative with innovative ideas.
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Not subtle, sure — but also, kind of fun? It is for a while, at least, before an overextended story runs out of steam and the delayed answers stretch themselves silly to emphasize a point made patently clear from the start.
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Aside from the commentaries on modern motherhood and all the “help” one might get while doing it wrongly, it is pretty farfetched; trying to detail the plotline makes one realize how outlandish it is. But this makes Michael Peña’s contribution as Detective Alcaras all the more refreshing. While Marissa and Peter pivot between rage and not-quite-mourning, and other characters are perpetrating cooked-up complications to the story, Alcaras conducts an investigation that is so commonsensical it defies the rules of crime fiction.
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Snook is fantastic as Marissa, delivering complicated anguish in a series of chunky knits. Fanning’s Jenny, trying to secure a new whale of a client for her publishing company while her feckless husband perpetually clocks out of activities with their son, is also compelling to watch, particularly when Jenny and Marissa find ways to bolster each other. Nevertheless, All Her Fault starts floundering midway through and never quite finds its footing again.