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 liked it so much that I am now in the process of rewatching it. I also just started the book, which I think will have enough differences, especially being set in Ireland, to make it a worthwhile experience of its own.

I was surprised to read that the series was filmed in Melbourne. I lived in Chicago for a few years and just assumed that that was where it was filmed. The did a really good job with the establishing shots that placed it visually in Chicago.

She's definitely not an 18-20. Not in today's sizing. Maybe a 14 as she's not super short but I'd also guess a 12.

Could be an American size 12 which I think might be UK 16? I also know the camera does make you look bigger than you are so that will also have an impact). Either way, she looks great and definitely felt like a more relatable character because she looked more like the women I see around me if that makes sense.

He's a great villain so good as B in the drama based on abducted in plain sight . I think it was called a stranger in the family

Ok. I have seen her on stage in real life though. Fucking stupid as I am.
I really liked the relationship between Marissa and Jenny as well.

Just found this for anyone interested
Sarah Snook is 5 feet 7 inches (1.7 m) tall, weighs around 121 pounds (55 kg), and has measurements of 34-26-36 inches, which corresponds to a US dress size 4. She wears a US shoe size 9
So a UK size 8

OK. I don't think she is a UK size 8.We can agree to disagree.

I don't supppose it's that relevant but I dislike when some women are ' real' and others aren't.

The pp didn't use the words real woman though. I think the word was normal, as in average. I understand what they meant as it crossed my mind when I was watching it. Average sized women with big breasts (not silicone) are rarely seen on TV and film. FWIW I think Sarah Snook looks a size 12 in this but the fact that we're even discussing this shows how narrowly women are represented in the media and the pressure for us to conform to a certain shape. It's good to see all shapes and sizes represented and not the usual UK size 4 that we see on our screens

Oddly among all the plot holes and coincidences the thing that kept pulling me out of this show was Jenny keeping her phone on, and answering it, in all these super-important meetings. Surely she wouldn't have done that? None of those occasions had an emergency pending.

I also wonder what would have happened if Marissa had gone to the police when she discovered what Peter had done - would Milo have been taken away? His birth parents were dead and I can't imagine his grandmother would have been interested.

I haven't watched it, but I have read the book and it's brilliant.

I really enjoyed this, altho the filming style made it feel a little bit Hallmark Channel 5 movie at times.

Really enjoyed this especially as we got to know more of the . Beautiful homes! I didn't realise it was Australia - very windy often! It turned out much better than I expected although at times I felt it was an episode of Colombo 😂

I agree with you.
I also wondered why would Marissa confide in Jenny as to what Peter had done swapping the babies. After all a secret shared is a secret halved.
His action was monumental. Jenny really didn’t have to know. At any time in the future she could spill the beans.
I was sure it was Colin kidnapping the child so he could get money for his gambling debts.
How did Carrie know Milo was her child when she and her father called into Colin’s house ?
The cruelty of Carrie’s mother when she said to her she at least kept her child alive 😮🥲
It certainly kept me guessing all the way through

The both had synesthesia, I thought that bit was a tad tenuous. I'd say the book had more detail

I have just finished this and loved it! One point I didn't understand though.

From Carrie/Josie's flashback episode it looked like she'd gone into labour and then after a while updated social media with "One Year of Noah" - suggesting he'd lived for a year. That really threw me when he was then supposed to have been a newborn coming home from hospital.

(And of course you'd recognise your 1 year-old child.)

I thoroughly enjoyed the book, read it again before starting the series, then switched off before the end of the first episode. Not for me.

Now I've stumbled across this thread and I'm so disappointed that the discussion has ended up around the dress size of a female actress?! Why is nobody discussing the size of the male actor? Come on, have we not learned by now?!

Omg yes!!! I agree!! Put away your bloody phone, of course he’s walking all over you with you being that available! (He was dick and I’m glad she chucked him, but she really didn’t help herself!)

I did enjoy this - it was very good, but I feel they jumped the shark at the end, when the cop said something about 'then you made a choice' (poisoning her husband with something he was allergic to - soy was it?) And then he basically said 'I know what you did, but I'm OK with it.'

No way, in the real world, would a cop/detective let someone go if they knew they had killed someone... Unless he had no proof whatsover. Then again, even if there was no proof, she (Marissa) would have been questioned thoroughly and cross-examined, and forensics would have investigated much more thoroughly and deeply.

Also, I agree with a pp, why did Marissa tell her friend Jenny that her husband swapped the babies and so on...... ??? It's all well and good until they fall out, and then her friend will tell everyone she knows! NEVER tell anyone something that you wouldn't want anyone else to know... EVER.

Also, no way in a million month of Sundays, is Sarah Snook (who played Marissa) is a UK size 8. Just no. She is around a size 14 I would say, maybe a 16 in some clothes.

And that's fine. I don't know why her publicists have to pretend she's a UK size 8. Nothing wrong with being a curvy woman - like size 14 to 16. It pisses me right off when agents and publicists of celebrities lie about them. Their height, their age, their dress size/clothes size. Like it's shameful to be on the shorter side, to be older, and to be curvy/overweight/have a dad bod - if it's a man.

It was like this with the actress out of Derry Girls who was in Brigerton. Her bio online claimed she's a size 8-10, when she was clearly around a size 16. Again, why are they so ashamed of being curvy/plump? It's not a crime!

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Agree with you 💯 about the point of telling a virtual stranger your biggest darkest secret, that could potentially bury you one day. Even unintentionally , everyone has to unburden and tell one☝️person and before you know it...

Fyi, Every curvy overweight according to the press celebrity I have met has been so much more petite in real life, to the point where I , a size 10 at the time thought i could never be on telly , like ever. It was quite jarring to be honest.

Agreed - I remember bank in the 90s when Geri Halliwell and Kate Winskett were described as ‘curvy’- their true to life models at Madame Tussaud’s were nothing but-both were tiny and slender.
Adele, who I met in real life at her biggest, was also a lot smaller than she appeared on TV.

Just finished it. DH commented that it felt written by a woman who was absolutely fed up of her husband. I thought it did a good job, better than many things I’ve watched, of conveying the mental load. Loved it when the police officer asked the husband whether HE had checked the nanny’s references, and when Marissa said yes she did manage his allergy for him as he was suffocating 😁 it dragged on a bit but enjoyed it!