Copyright Screen Rant
After several twists and turns, Peacock's All Her Fault finally comes to a close. The limited series' dramatic finale garnered a lot of attention, and one of the stars of the show, Jake Lacy, offered his input. All Her Fault is based on a book of the same name written by Andrea Mara and adapted for television by Megan Gallagher. The show is centered around the disappearance of the protagonist, Marissa Irvine's (Sarah Snook) child, Milo. After a playdate at his new friend's house, she went to pick him up, only to realize that the owner of the home, Jenny Kaminski (Dakota Fanning), didn't know who she or her son was. The big reveal of All Her Fault was when viewers found out that Milo wasn't actually Marissa's son. When her child was a baby, she got into a car accident that involved Josephine Murphy, who was going by the name Carrie Finch (Sophia Lillis), who also had a son of the same age. Marissa's husband, Peter Irvine (Lacy), switched the two children to shield his wife from the death of their son. After the truth came out, Marissa orchestrated the death of her husband. Peter had a soy allergy, so she triggered a reaction by eating something that contained soy and kissed him. When he began to suffer from anaphylaxis shock, she gave him an expired EpiPen, leading to his demise. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Lacy revealed how he truly felt about his fate in the show. The actor explained the mixed emotions he had when he realized that Peter was going to die. Lacy stated that while he grew to love his role, he agreed with the show's writers that his character truly made a lot of horrible decisions and ultimately needed to go. Peter had to go, let's be honest, Peter had to go. I was disappointed to see him go, I have a fondness for Peter, but Peter had to go. There was some dialogue stuff in there that we sort of massaged... It's tricky. Those are the hardest episodes — I have no envy for a writer trying to answer how do we organically tie everything up and land the plane, but not make it obvious that we're tying things up and landing the plane, and every story is still serviced, but not in a tacky way — that is just a thankless job. And I thought Megan crushed it. So it felt like a good ending has to be surprising and inevitable, and I think that's both. That, as Peter is dying, I would assume an audience is like, Yeah, that makes sense. But the way in which he goes out, you're like, Oh, of course. It is fun that that's planted seven episodes earlier and then left to kind of fester. Lacy stated that he was just as surprised as everyone else regarding Peter's storyline. He was left in the dark with the rest of the cast when it came to the twists that involved his character. He explained, "I think everybody was clued in around the same time." When asked about how he hoped the audience would respond to the dramatic conclusion, the actor said that he hoped viewers would be surprised by what Peter did and how his story ended. He also wanted fans to feel conflicted about his actions. He wanted them to be torn between whether it was justified or not. It's such a bingeable show in the best way, really, at least in my opinion. I feel like you finish one and go to the next, and the story, the subject matter, touches on a lot of themes or has comments on society or perspective on gender roles in these straight marriages and responsibilities. But ultimately, I just want it to be a thriller. I want people to be shocked by the twists and the turns and to think that they know and then have the rug pulled out from under them, and to be unsure as to whether they agree with a character's motivation or justification and ultimately get taken on a ride.
