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The Good Daughter review – the best thing about this legal thriller? Brendan Gleeson’s sad toilet fart
For a drama that is meant to explore female trauma, Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy are given very little to do as small-town lawyers. It is Gleeson who steals the show as their broken father who earns the name Shatticus Finch
âWhy is ma laaahf filled with contrary feee-males?â grumbles dilapidated defence lawyer Rusty Quinn (Brendan Gleeson), his deep south vowels stretching like grilled cheese across his cluttered desk.
Poor Rusty. As the father of two headstrong lawyer daughters, this sunken beanbag of fading masculinity is forced daily to endure the contrariness of feee-males who are forever challenginâ the status quo. âThis is all bullshit,â snaps elder daughter Sam (Rose Byrne), by way of illustration. âYouâre a dipshit,â adds Charlie (Meghann Fahy), thoughtfully. They sure donât make his laaahf easy! But the sisters love olâ Rusty, or at least do their best to tolerate his excruciating aphorisms (âNever kick a fresh turd on a hot day,â etc), and when a school shooting forces them to confront a long-buried family tragedy, the Quinns pull together. They need each other. Dammit, the whole town needs them. After all, shouts Charlie, âWeâre the only lawyers that donât roll over for the local cops!â Thus begins The Good Daughter, a steaming hillock of âsmalltown secretsâ bunkum that fulfils precisely the same purpose as a Harlan Coben adaptation.
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Not even Rose Byrne can save this schlocky and relentless legal drama
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Set in a small Georgia town full of secrets, corrupt cops and horrific violence that scar generations, The Good Daughter evokes the American literary lineage of the Southern Gothic. Not in terms of quality, but the quantity of its traumas – and its characters’ frequent quoting of Flannery O’Connor.
Adapted by Karin Slaughter from her best-selling thriller of the same name, The Good Daughter is a six-episode onslaught of violence that frequently stretches believability. It would be hard to recommend the series if not for its magnetic cast led by Meghann Fahy and Rose Byrne, who add tenderness and care into a somewhat callous, schlocky layering of traumas.
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