All Her Fault ★★★★

The domestic thriller has become a staple of prestige television over the past decade, in no small part because 2017’s Big Little Lies provided such a compelling template: big-name ensemble cast, glamorous lifestyles, stunning real-estate porn and scenery and, above all, the satisfying revelation that beneath the perfect facades, those blissed-out have-it-alls are actually tearing each other apart.

All Her Fault , set in Chicago but shot in Melbourne, is cast very much from that mould. But while it starts out looking pretty cookie-cutter, it soon carves an identity all its own, and rather inspired at that.

Not that it’s slow to start. The moment Marissa Irvine (a superb Sarah Snook ) turns up at a stranger’s door to collect her five-year-old son Milo (the extra

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