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 😂

Joining this thread late and just binged it and not sure if I missed something but Peter found Milo in the closet after killing Josie/Carrie's dad and put him in the boot. How did Milo not know it was his dad that put him in the boot? Even if he blindfolded him, I cant believe he didnt see him, hear his voice.. did I miss a bit that explained this part!?

I really liked it but didn’t understand how Marissa didn’t notice the switch. I know he was one day old, but surely you would know that wasn’t your baby?!!

She was unconscious for a few weeks after the accident, I suppose you'd expect a newborn to change a fair bit.

I really enjoyed it. I did not predict all the twists.

I do think the fact that Carrie happened to meet Milo by chance the first time, seemed unlikely.

I have an issue with how the killing at the end happened though. There was something really nasty about that sort of scene for suffers of that kind of condition.

That's a very good point. There really were some 'loose ends' with this, even though I enjoyed it.

How on earth did they get the little boy who played Milo to learn all those lines? He seemed really tiny to act so much!

In a catalogue of wtf moments, this was the wtf I couldn't get past. Your missing tiny son is returned safe to you and you put him in his own bed and leave him there????? Absolutely no parent would do that. He'd be in my arms for the foreseeable.

The guy who played Peter is the worst actor I've ever seen. At no time was he plausible as Marissas husband, they were like awkward strangers. Dakota Fanning lights up the screen without even speaking - her presence made the other actors look even weaker. Including Shiv Roy, who owns one facial expression.

I thought Sarah Snook was fabulous. She kept me watching. Dakota was all right.

I thought Sarah Snook played a frantic mother brilliantly

Also, is it just me that thought Milo's school got off lightly! Shouldn't they have confirmed with both sets of parents that there was going to be a change in pick up arrangements.

Whilst it appears it would have made more sense for Carrie to get a DNA test and claim her son I think she may have struggled to get him back at that point. Whilst Peter may have been arrested and sent to prison Marissa was an innocent. She was a good mother with an excellent income and had brought him up for 5 years with the means to give him the best upbringing. Carrie was a poor single Mum with poor mental health. She would have struggled to fight Marissa for custody if it went to court. Even if this were not the case that is what Carrie may have thought as she had never been dealt a fair set of cards in the game of life.

It was a shame they chose the actor they did to play Peter. He always tends to play an upper class knobs so from the outset I thought he may have some involvement. The big jarring issue for me was that he recovered Milo from the kidnapper but Milo said nothing ? How did he get him out of the closet without Milo recognising him?

I was also very relieved that nothing bad happened to the detective for what he did to get his son in to the special school. I thought it was a nice way to explain why he didn’t report his suspicions re Milo not being Marissa’s. It made more sense when you knew that he would bend the rules for the greater good.

Oooh can I join as watched it all and loved it.

Yes there were plot holes but I loved the way the contrasting stories were told. So you have rich couples where both work to fund their lifestyle and nannies take up the slack. Their kids want for nothing materially and academically but they don't have the full attention or time from their parents, especially the Dads. The detective and his wife are poor and struggling to do their best for their son but everything's a fight. Their son is lacking materially and academically but he has their full attention and affection.

It is a little over done but was an interesting depiction of where life can land.

The depiction of the parents association mom was just superb for me. That holier than thou, do what you are told type was so true. All I could see and hear was our local version. Too funny.

Fuck me. Dakota Fanning’s character really resonates

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I absolutely loved this! Binged it at the weekend. I loved how they showed the detective demonstrating what a good, attentive father should be. I felt for him in his moral dilemma to get his son into the school. I loved Marissa & Jenny’s friendship that developed. The way Jenny ignored everyone’s advice to protect and distance herself and just went over to tell her how sorry she was spoke volumes to her character.

I saw it coming with his brothers accident, and the soy allergy being how she would kill him (after it became obvious killing him was really her only option). I didn’t see it coming that Milo wasn’t going to be their son until they showed the history a bit. If she had lived, I’d have felt very conflicted as to who Milo should have ended up with.

The woman who answered the door at the beginning I had thought was involved - she seemed far too calm and like she was drawing out how long it took to call the police. Glad I was wrong!

I’ve heard the book is really good, so I’m tempted to read it now!

I still haven't seen this, but I'm highly amused by the novel being set in the author's native Dublin, the screen adaptation being set in the US, but filmed, I understand, in Australia, where Sarah Snook is from (and which presumably is pretending to be the US?)...

Oh I thought they'd filmed it in Chicago!

Doesn’t she just? “I’m the default parent”.

I hear ya, love.

I know talk about feeling seen.

I second that. By Hollywood’s standards she is probably seen as a bigger lady but I’d imagine she’s roughly a size 12.
So very refreshing. Loved her outfits too.
I think poor Jack Lacy is destined to play bad guy ever since White Lotus Hotel!

I like Sarah Snook but no way is she a 12. More like 18-20.
I also dislike the term " skinny minnies" or ' normal woman' because size 8 women are also perfectly normal.

Thought this was really good! I didn't see the twists coming. Felt very sorry for Josephine/Carrie - what happened to her was awful.

I thought it was Amanda Seyfried playing Jenny, she is the spitting image of Dakota Fanning who I still remember as a kid!

Off to watch Malice next!

Hell yes when he said to her “when am I off duty?” I wanted to smash the screen!

and my kids are adults and yes this was part of the reason I left 😂😂

”I also dislike the term " skinny minnies" or ' normal woman' because size 8 women are also perfectly normal”

I agree, that’s an awful thing to say. If it’s acceptance we want it has to go both ways. Women supporting each other no matter their body size. Even size 8 women.

She is absolutely not an 18-20!!!