After winning an Emmy for her role in the hit series Succession, Sarah Snook is back on television. She stars in the new Peacock thriller All Her Fault, which premiered on November 6, 2025. Snook explains that she deliberately picked a project that was completely different from the world of the wealthy, backstabbing Roy family.
In the new series, Snook plays Marissa Irvine, a mother in a wealthy Chicago neighborhood. Her life shatters when she goes to pick up her five-year-old son, Milo, from a playdate, only to find he is not there and the woman at the door has never heard of him. The show follows her desperate search for her missing child.
Why a New TV Role Had to Be Different
Following her time on the hugely popular Succession, Sarah Snook knew her next project needed to be a distinct change. She did not want to try and top her experience on the award-winning show.
“Succession was such a big, zeitgeist, huge moment thing,” Snook said. “It was career-changing for me and so incredible, so my plan going forward was always choosing things that are different — but also to never compare. It’s not a thing that I can ever top as an experience and as a world. It meant so much to me, so just finding something different was really important. And I feel like this is that.”
She described her new character, Marissa, as a major shift from Shiv Roy. While Shiv was internally cold and calculated, Marissa has a visible warmth, even as she endures a parent’s worst nightmare.
Connecting Motherhood to the Role
Snook’s own life has changed significantly since her Succession days. She became a mother, welcoming a daughter with her husband, Dave Lawson, in May 2023. She says becoming a parent gave her a deeper understanding for this new role that she did not have before.
“I don’t think I would have been able to do this role before now,” Snook admitted. “I would have been able to imaginatively create something, but there’s a real difference between that and the depth of feeling that I now understand. There’s a wealth of emotion to draw on.”
She even connected the roles that have bookended her journey into motherhood, noting, “To be pregnant in one show and then have your child go missing in the other — let’s hope that’s not the motherhood journey for most.”
A Story of Invisible Labor and Blame
Beyond the central mystery, All Her Fault digs into the theme of the “invisible labor” that often falls on women, even in modern relationships. When her son goes missing, Marissa is the one expected to know all the details of his life, while the title of the show points to the automatic blame placed on mothers.
“It’s a conversation that’s been certainly happening in my life, in my friendship circles for the last, certainly five years at least,” Snook said about the show’s social commentary. “It’s about the invisible labor that women tend to take on in a relationship that has children involved.”
Her co-star, Dakota Fanning, who plays another mother in the series, expanded on this idea. “It’s not some exposé of men and all their terrible traits,” Fanning explained. “It’s more about the things that they just don’t see that women do, or just the pieces that are left behind that they don’t realize are theirs to pick up.”
Leading the Way On and Off Screen
For this project, Snook took on an additional role as an executive producer. This allowed her to help shape the culture on set and champion an eco-friendly production. The crew used reusable cups and cutlery, as well as electric vehicles.
She also valued that the creative team was led by women, including showrunner Megan Gallagher and directors Minkie Spiro and Kate Dennis. Snook felt this was key to telling the story with authenticity.
“It was really intentional to make sure we had a woman directing and having Meghan be the showrunner, because you don’t want to be too on-the-nose with those kinds of things,” Snook said. “Otherwise, they’re overlooked and they are ignored.”
The eight-episode series is available to stream in full on Peacock.
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