‘Apples Never Fall’ Showrunner on That Ending, Changes From the Book and Why Everyone Should Call Their Mom After Watching
variety.comCaroline Brew editor SPOILER ALERT:This story contains major spoilers for “Apples Never Fall,” now streaming on Peacock.
Known for her twisty and darkly humorous thrillers, Liane Moriarty is the author behind the source material for TV hits like HBO’s “Big Little Lies” and Hulu’s “Nine Perfect Strangers.” Like many of her stories, the newest Moriarty adaptation — Peacock’s “Apples Never Fall” — is centered on a suspenseful mystery, but showrunner Melanie Marnich was just as interested in what the author had to say about the complexities of family dynamics. “You have to know these people love each other, otherwise they can’t cause each other pain,” Marnich told Variety at an early screening event for the series. “There’s a phrase in [Moriarty’s] book that’s something like: ‘You can love somebody and hate somebody.
Both things can be true.’ You can look across the table at your husband, your wife or your child and resent them and love them more than anything.
Both things can be true.” The seven-episode limited series revolves around the tennis-obsessed Delaneys, whose lives unravel after a troubled young woman named Savannah (Georgia Flood) shows up at their door, and the family matriarch Joy (Annette Bening) later disappears.
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