THE GOOD DAUGHTER by Karin Slaughter - Vanity Fair 'Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy Are Southern Sisters With Secrets in The Good Daughter First Look'

Vanity Fair | September 10, 2026

Even in an era rife with twisty true crime stories, and predominantly female audiences eager to consume them, the women behind The Good Daughter know their show’s opening is a tough watch. Like the best-selling 2017 Karin Slaughter novel on which it is based, the Peacock series starring Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy as Southern sisters begins decades earlier, on the day a childhood home invasion ends in their mother’s (Olivia Williams) murder. Several years on from that fateful attack, another shocking act of gun violence forces the estranged sisters back together at the insistence of their defense attorney father (Brendan Gleeson). And that’s just in the first 15 minutes.

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