Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy will star in “The Good Daughter,” Peacock‘s upcoming limited series series based on the Karin Slaughter novel of the same name. Byrne also serves as executive producer.
Byrne and Fahy play Samantha and Charlotte Quinn, respectively. Charlotte Quinn is a lawyer who witnesses a violent crime which brings bag back memories of the one she and her sister, Samantha, experienced 28 years before.
The official logline reads, “‘The Good Daughter’ is a suspenseful crime drama where sisters Charlotte (Meghann Fahy) and Samantha (Rose Byrne) Quinn have spent the last 28 years trying to piece together the lives that were fractured by a single night of violence. When another attack splinters the small town of Pikeville, Charlotte is the first witness on the scene. Now a lawyer like her father, she’s forced to confront her own demons as the case twists through one shocking revelation after another. In the end, both she and Samantha find themselves wondering if the price of being the good daughter was worth it after all.”
The Good Daughter was picked up straight-to-series by the NBCU streaming service in March, with Slaughter writing all episodes and executive producing the project. Fahy is taking on the role Jessica Biel was originally set to play following Biel’s exit from the project as star and executive producer.
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