The Good Daughter’s Six Episodes Arrive on Peacock

Peacock made all six episodes of The Good Daughter available on November 12, 2026, bringing Karin Slaughter’s adaptation of her 2017 novel to streaming in the United States. Slaughter wrote and executive-produced the series and served as its showrunner. The drama follows two estranged sisters whose lives are shaped by violence and a legal case in their Georgia hometown.

Meghann Fahy plays Charlie Quinn, who remains in Pikeville and works as a lawyer with her father, Rusty, played by Brendan Gleeson. Rose Byrne plays Charlie’s sister Sam, a patent lawyer who has left town. After Charlie witnesses a school shooting, Sam returns to represent the teenage suspect, Kelly Wilson. Rusty is attacked and hospitalized, leaving the sisters to take on the case.

The six-episode story also looks back to a home invasion during the sisters’ childhood, in which their mother was killed and the girls were attacked. The sisters’ differing responses to the event and their estrangement form a central strand of the series, alongside the criminal case and tensions in Pikeville.

Three reviews of the drama criticized its repeated focus on trauma and the accumulation of violent events, while also praising...