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Two maskedgunmen looking to exact revenge on a small-town Georgia defense lawyer invade his home to find only his wife and two daughters. This nightmare continues that day and reverberates through the girls’ adult lives. Front-loading this key trauma allows the Peacock series, premiering Nov. 12, to make it the basis of maybe a dozen more trauma dumps over the course of its six gloomy episodes. Search for meaning amid the misery, and you’ll find it’s trauma all the way down. A couple of decades after the above tragedy, the younger sister, Charlie Quinn ([Meghann Fahy](https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318872/meghann-fahy/)), is a lawyer working with her dad Rusty (Brendan Gleeson). Brash and crude yet fond of quoting highbrow literature—and pariahs in a town that blames Rusty for multiple real or perceived miscarriages of justice—father and daughter are in rough shape. He’s a sickly, aging drinker. Separated from her husband (Michael Dorman), Charlie awakens one morning with a phone belonging to last night’s hookup (Jake McDorman). She brings it to the high school where he teaches (and she spent some of the worst years of her life as a student) and happens to be present for a fatal shooting. But something doesn’t add up about the apparent culprit, Kelly (Shayna Benardo), a poor, placid girl with learning difficulties. She’s the perfect client for Rusty.  Meghann Fahy and Brendan Gleeson in The Good Daughter Mark Hill—Peacock A few twists later, Charlie’s estranged sister Sam ([Rose Byrne](https://time.com/7324453/if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you-review-rose-byrne/)) is summoned home after a long absence—and drawn into Kelly’s case. Sam is a lawyer too, though her safer and more lucrative specialty is patents. But in all other respects, she’s managed her trauma by becoming the opposite of her surviving family members: a rich, uptight, black-clad urbanite. Byrne, Gleeson, and Fahy (the standout here) are great actors, but there’s only so much they can do for a script built on coincidence and contrivance. One death happens at such a convenient moment, it's comical. Worse is how _The Good Daughter_, adapted by veteran suspense author and rookie showrunner [Karin Slaughter](https://time.com/4174139/real-mystery-of-making-a-murderer/) from her 2017 best seller, collects horrors, as though cataloging everything awful that could happen to a woman. Sure, it exposes one gender’s brutality to another, but that isn't exactly unexplored territory, especially in this genre. Real mysteries, like what keeps Rusty in a town and a job that destroyed his family, are shrugged off with portentous metaphors about stories—who has the power to tell them, who gets to rewrite their own. 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