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title: "Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy play estranged sisters in Peacock’s six-part The Good Daughter thriller"
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published: 2026-11-15T05:28:00+00:00
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# Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy play estranged sisters in Peacock’s six-part The Good Daughter thriller

Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy star as the Quinn sisters in The Good Daughter, Karin Slaughter's own six-episode adaptation now streaming on Peacock.

Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy play estranged sisters Samantha and Charlotte Quinn in The Good Daughter, a six-part thriller that Peacock released all at once on Thursday, November 12. The twist behind the camera: novelist Karin Slaughter adapted her own bestselling novel, writing every episode herself.

Peacock calls it a limited series, so this is the whole story in one sitting rather than the first chapter of a franchise.

## Who plays who in The Good Daughter

Byrne plays Sam, the older sister, a patent attorney who has built a life in New York City. Fahy plays Charlie, the younger one, who stayed in the small Georgia town of Pikeville and became a defense lawyer like their father. Brendan Gleeson plays that father, Rusty Quinn, and Olivia Williams plays their mother, Harriet, known to the family as Gamma.

The wider cast includes Michael Dorman as Ben Bernard, Charlie’s estranged husband and the town’s assistant district attorney, plus Harper Steele, Jake McDorman, Paula Malcomson and Shayna Benardo. Audrey Grace Marshall and Drew Ann Cheek play the sisters as girls.

## What the series is about

Twenty years before the story opens, an act of violence in the family home tore the Quinns apart. When a new and similar crime shakes Pikeville, and Charlie is the first witness on the scene, the sisters are pulled back together at their father’s request. Old secrets surface as they dig into both cases.

Slaughter described the show as “a story of love, family, and the unbreakable bond between two resilient, funny, difficult sisters.” That framing matters: the platform is pitching it as a family drama first and a crime mystery second.

The episode titles lean into the puzzle. They run from “What Happened to Charlie” and “What Happened to Sam” through to “What Really Happened to Charlie” and the finale, “What Really Happened”.

## From Jessica Biel to Rose Byrne: the road to the screen

The project has been almost three years in the making. Here is how it came together:

- **March 2024:** Peacock orders the series, with Slaughter adapting and Jessica Biel attached to star.

- **September 2024:** Biel leaves the project.

- **December 2024:** Byrne and Fahy are cast as the Quinn sisters; Byrne also joins as an executive producer, and Emmy winner Steph Green signs on to direct all six episodes.

- **February to March 2025:** Gleeson, Williams, Dorman and the rest of the ensemble join.

- **March to June 2025:** filming in and around Atlanta, including Griffin City Hall and exteriors in Marietta.

- **November 12, 2026:** all six episodes drop on Peacock.

That works out to roughly 32 months from series order to premiere, with about 17 months between the end of filming and release.

## Early reviews and how to watch

Early critical reaction is mixed to positive. The main review aggregator showed 67% approval from 12 critics shortly after launch, and another scoring site rated it 64 out of 100, which it labels “generally favorable”.

The Good Daughter streams only on Peacock, with episodes running 47 to 56 minutes. For more on NBCUniversal’s slate, read how [Jake Johnson’s comedy Sunset P.I. set its February 8 premiere](https://badiyaa.com/sunset-pi-jake-johnson-nbc-premiere/), or browse the latest [film and TV stories on Badiyaa](https://badiyaa.com/category/entertainment/).

The production stayed close to home for its Georgia-born author: Pikeville’s streets were shot around Griffin, about an hour south of Atlanta, where filming wrapped in June 2025.

## Further reading

- [Wikipedia: The Good Daughter (American TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Daughter_(American_TV_series))

*Image: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons*

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