# Rose Byrne legal thriller shifts from calamity to conventional twists

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-good-daughter-rose-byrnes-legal-thriller-is-so-full-of-calamity-it-borders-on-mr-bean-like-farce/
- Published: 2026-11-07T07:00:05+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-07T09:47:41+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/nov/07/the-good-daughter-rose-byrne-legal-thriller-peacock-sky-atlantic
- Topics: Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment

## Key points

- The thriller opens with a string of traumatic events.
- Meghann Fahy and Rose Byrne play sisters and lawyers.
- The review favours their relationship over the plot.

## Summary

The Good Daughter is a psychological legal thriller starring Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy as sisters whose family is shaped by a shooting and its aftermath. The review finds its opening packed with calamity to the point of seeming farcical, but says the drama later settles into a more conventional, twist-filled thriller.

Fahy plays a lawyer alongside her father, played by Brendan Gleeson, while Byrne’s character is a wealthy New York lawyer who joins them after the shooting. The story links the family’s handling of their mother’s death with the wider community’s involvement in the attack; the review says the sisters’ relationship is more compelling than the plot, which it considers glossy and politically muted.

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