Karin Slaughter Is Thinking About a Sequel to The Good Daughter

Karin Slaughter says she has been thinking about a follow-up to The Good Daughter, and it could arrive as a short story rather than another season of television. In an interview with Deadline, the author said she has "actually been thinking about" writing a short-story sequel about the sisters, Charlie and Sam.

The original story is hers. Slaughter wrote the 2017 novel, then adapted it into a series for Peacock, the streaming service. She also served as showrunner, meaning the writer who runs the show day to day and shapes its stories. She wrote all six episodes herself, and Steph Green directed them.

The cast carries the family drama. Meghann Fahy plays Charlotte, known as Charlie, and Rose Byrne plays Samantha, known as Sam. Brendan Gleeson plays Rusty, the father of the two women. The series is available to stream on Peacock now.

Slaughter also described a specific idea she has weighed for the sisters' next chapter. In it, Charlie and her husband Ben, played by Michael Dorman, move to Atlanta to take up new jobs and start over. She framed it as a scenario she has considered, not a finished plan.

A short story is a much shorter form than a novel, usually a single self-contained piece of prose. That makes it a different kind of follow-up from a second season, which would need a production team, a schedule and a platform's approval. Slaughter's comments were about an idea she has been turning over.

For readers who finished the series, the news is that the world of the sisters may not be finished on the page. For people who have not yet watched, the six episodes are waiting on Peacock, and the book is the place where the story began.