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Alison Herman
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Courtesy of Peacock Last year, Meghann Fahy starred in “Sirens” as one half of a haunted pair of sisters. Fahy’s character resents the way her sibling has escaped the suffocating, hardscrabble world that raised them, particularly the father she’s wound up taking care of in lieu of starting her own life. But circumstances conspire to reunite the estranged pair, who proceed to hash out their differences and air old resentments over a few high-pressure days.
It appears that Fahy has a type, because her latest role in yet another streaming-native limited series matches that description to a tee. This repetition could be a worrying sign of an actor settling into a rut — except Fahy’s knack for creating lived-in, complex, deeply felt familial chemistry is such that you can’t blame her for being drawn to similar material. What she pulled off once with “House of the Dragon” breakout Milly Alcock, Fahy does again with an equally skilled screen partner in Rose Byrne. Peacock’s “The Good Daughter” isn’t always on the level of its two central performances, but their scenes together are so alive with anger, hurt and devotion it doesn’t have to be.
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