All Her Fault - thread for bingers with spoilers!

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I’ve commented on the other thread but I can’t wait that long to actually talk about the whole thing!
I binged it in two days. I thought it was excellent. The plot and twist really took me by surprise and the ending was really satisfying.
I want to erase my memory and watch it again 😂

I'll join, I'm literally just watching the last episode.

Honestly when they got him
back why didn’t she ask him to sleep in her bed? Or vice versa

Oh I binged the lot! Loved it, but have some questions…. I felt they left the situation with Jenny’s husband unfinished, or did I miss a bit?

Was anyone expecting Jenny to be a baddy?

I just took it as they divorced and kind of happily ever after with the nice woman as new nanny.

I totally binged it all too. I couldn’t help it. It did feel weird for Dakota Fanning to be playing a mum as I still think of her as a child actress still but that’s probably just me.

As for the show, loved the twists and turns. I saw the soy thing coming (I mean it was probably the most obvious way to kill him) as well as the twist with which sibling was responsible for the brother’s injury, and I guessed the baby swap part quite early but didn’t bank on it being through an accident like that. I had just thought that something had happened at the hospital somehow but couldn’t work out exactly how.

When I saw it advertised I thought it was just a take on another similar show (can’t remember the name of it but had the same premise of a mum going to collect a kid from a playdate and he wasn’t there?) but I was definitely wrong there. I don’t think the ads really pushed the twists and turns there would be in it.

Has anyone read the book it was based on? I don’t know if it would be worth reading now we know the twists or if it would be different in some ways so would still be good.

I’ve just finished it. I enjoyed it. I’m also glad that Sarah Snook isn’t a skinny minny! She looks like a normal woman.

I usually only watch British TV dramas, so the background music and the very unnatural way the characters spoke to each other was a bit off putting for me at first. However after that opening scene, I had to watch the whole thing to find out what happened to Milo.

I thought the lead actress and the detective were really good in their roles. And Peter was incredibly handsome, he reminds me of Nigel Harman 😍 Aside from those three, Carrie and Milo's nanny, I didn't care for any of the other characters. I did really enjoy the story though. I thought the twist was great, I didn't see it coming that Carrie would be Milo's real mum. The ending made me feel so sad for Carrie/Josie though, why did she not just take a Milo's hair for DNA testing and get him back by the proper route? 😭

I’ve just stumbled on this thread and I’m intrigued. Where to watch this?

I binged this over 3 days. I don’t usually like the very American stuff but I love the lead actress.
Going the legal route with a dna test etc would have been more sensible but not made much of a tv program. Bit like Breaking Bad being in the UK and Walter White getting his lung cancer treated on the NHS! Not very exciting.
@paristotokyo It’s on Sky Atlantic and Now tv

For those that don't know, Sarah Snook is actually Australian. Her American accent is flawless.

@lazymum99thank you, will check it out and get off this spoiler thread 😃

I really enjoyed it. I liked the episode that focussed on the detective and the challenges with his son, which obviously leads to him breaking the rules to benefit his son, and then turning a blind eye at the end. I didn’t quite get the bit where he hugs his son at pick up time from daycare, did he think he felt thin? I assumed he felt like they were ignoring him - leaving him doing a puzzle for 2 hours but the extra hug wasn’t clear enough for me.

The only bit that bugged me was that the way Carrie met Milo was just coincidence, doing a job with her dad and happened to talk to a 5 year old and it turned out to be her son, purely from the descriptive colour thing? Did I miss something?

Not sure if this is the bit you mean. I assumed that when he hugged his son he could smell that his nappy needed changing and they he had sat in it dirty all day, not getting the attention he should. It showed him in the bathroom afterwards dealing with it.

Ah yes that makes sense. Thanks. I thought he was feeling his ribs or something but you’re right they showed them in the bathroom afterwards.

I really enjoyed the series as it went on but thought the ending was a bit silly and overkill

I've just binged this and loved it.

My only thing that nagged at me was the car accident. He realised his son was dead and heard Carrie's baby crying and went and got him. He then obviously put Carrie's baby (Noah/Milo) in his car, and took out the poor dead baby and put him in Carrie's car. At that point, I thought we could hear police sirens, would there have been enough time to do all that, strap babies in etc.

Sorry to nit pick

I made a comment on the other thread about the guy who plays Peter reminding me of a young Donald Trump, because he always seems to play rich prick douche types - and I was still only on episode 1.

I love my pattern recognition 💅.

I too want to binge watch.

Stolen child was the other one

I loved it, lots of twists and turns. Peter didn’t look trustworthy from the start and I think because he was a control freak there’s no way he would have left his wife to manage his medical supplies, he would check his own Eli pens and emergency kits.
I agree about the swapping babies over once the sirens were heard. That was a stretch.
Felt a bit short changed about how Josephine was killed, she deserved a better ending.

I thought it was really good, it portrayed Andrea Maras writing style of presenting different suspects and keeping you guessing right up to the reveal very well. I found the colours/tastes condition fascinating as I had never come across it before reading the book. I liked the added element of the portrayal of an autistic character and the detective also having an ethical choice to make. (Although I would have preferred the detective to have remained a women). Jennys speech about being the default parent really spoke to me. Sarah snook was fantastic it’s the first thing I’ve seen her in but she’s brilliant. The car ending was slightly far fetched but they had successfully portrayed Peter as a narcissist well enough to make it believable.

Peter was truly awful and how he had fucked up his siblings lives was shocking. Letting his sister carry that burden all her life 🫨😒
He just wanted to control everyone around him

I liked SS and the women's friendship and the sharp analysis of weaponised male incompetence.
Found it unbelievable and contrived that Peter would steal a baby. Didn't seem all that keen to be a dad.
Also found the whole sibling side plot tedious and unnecessary.
I predicted the soy part but liked how she carried it out, particularly how he died because he couldn't be arsed to manage his own epipen.
Loved the last wine drinking scene!

Think about Peter’s character and how he had to be the one in control, the one that people needed. Then the baby swap makes sense. In fact even more, because “any baby” rather than “his” baby would do.