All Her Fault Creator On Skipping Affairs For Husbands
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- Megan Gallagher, creator and showrunner of 'All Her Fault,' said she received a standout viewer comment describing the show's two husbands as 'the worst I've ever seen on television' specifically because neither was having an affair — a choice she deliberately made.
- Richie (Thomas Cocquerel), Jenny Kaminski's husband, is written as someone who keeps Jenny miserable by withholding help; Gallagher said she'd 'rather have you sleep with your secretary than do that.'
- Peter (Jake Lacy), Marissa Irvine's husband, lets Marissa blame herself for their son Milo's disappearance while hiding his own role in it for most of the series.
- Marissa (Sarah Snook) was purposefully written as 'an incredibly accomplished career woman who wasn't necessarily a lovey-dovey mom' with 'a real edge,' challenging expectations for the genre's mothers.
- Jenny (Dakota Fanning) appears to be 'a people pleaser' but has 'a very steely core down there,' with her scene of finally putting her foot down with Richie described as 'finding that moment of no.'
- Gallagher framed the series as exploring how women and mothers shoulder disproportionate societal blame — including the guilt they internalize themselves, which she called 'the most heartbreaking part.'
- The comments came at an All Her Fault x Women in Entertainment FYC screening held at The London in West Hollywood on Sunday.
Why it matters: By rejecting the easy thriller shortcut of an affair, Gallagher stakes the show's emotional weight on subtler betrayals — emotional withholding and hidden culpability — that she argues are harder to forgive and more reflective of how blame actually falls on women. For Sarah Snook and Dakota Fanning's characters, that framing forces audiences to sit with how Marissa's self-blame and Jenny's endurance are shaped by the men around them, not by their own failures.
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