Veron The Reviewer

"All Her Fault" is a 2025 miniseries about Marissa Irvine and her desperate search for her son Milo after he goes missing, sending shockwaves rippling through her family and friends in the process. The story goes through several unexpected twists and turns as more of the mystery is unravelled, and the incident's deeper ties to Marissa and her family are gradually revealed. Sarah Snook's Marissa centers the series, and Snook's gripping performance is the definite highlight and emotional core of the story, anchoring the events with relatable emotions as she wrestles with her self-doubt amidst fears that she was to blame for Milo's disappearance, all while she searches everywhere for clues as to Milo's whereabouts. Emotions run high as more pieces of the puzzle are presented, but it never spills into melodrama, as every bit of dramatic tension has appropriate weight behind it. Every twist feels earned, and the story's focus on its female characters provid...

Imagine being stuck in a hellish household as a maid where your boss is mercurial, prone to changing her mind about you entirely on a whim and seemingly having no recollection of her previous requests or comments towards you. This is the problem faced by Millie Calloway (Sydney Sweeney), a young new housemaid hired by the wealthy Nina Winchester (Amanda Seyfried). The overall plot is somewhat predictable, with twists you can see coming clearly before they happen, but the film is still entertaining despite this, as the two central performances have some surprising depth to them: Amanda Seyfried steals the show here as her character, giving an initially wonderfully-unhinged performance that gradually reveals a deeper undercurrent of sadness. On the other hand, Sydney Sweeney plays Millie as the very put upon maid of the family for the first half of the film, but shows a more resourceful side to her in the back half as more revelations about the Winchesters come to light. Overall, an ente...