• by Adam Buckman , Featured Columnist, Today

The new missing-child drama “All Her Fault” gets right down to business from the very first scene.

A suburban Chicago mom on an ordinary errand to pick up her young son from a playdate suddenly finds him missing, and leaving virtually no trail to follow. 

Within a few minutes of Episode One, we share her feelings of sheer terror as she gradually comes to the sickening realization that he is really gone.

No one knows where he is -- not her husband, not the other moms from the boy’s school, and not the woman who answers the door at the address where her son is supposed to be.

The address turns out to be false and the woman has no idea why the mom -- Marissa Irvine, played by “Succession” star Sarah Snook (above photo, right) -- has turned up at her door expecting to pick up her son.

As the episode proceeds, something else becomes apparent: Without meaning to, Marissa has made a series of wrong moves that may have contributed to setting up a situation that would lead to her son’s disappearance.

These include setting up a playdate by text with someone she barely knew, hiring a nanny who may or may not have been vetted properly by an agency, and being distracted to the point of carelessness by the demands of her job as a wealth manager.

By this point, the meaning of the drama’s title, “All Her Fault,” comes sharply into focus. Not only is she dealing with her son’s disappearance, but the circumstances are beginning to add up to a perception on the part of others that his disappearance is “all her fault.”

Based on a novel of the same name by Andrea Mara, “All Her Fault” is attractive and intense.

Filmed on location in Chicago and its suburbs (a sign identifies the north shore community of Wilmette), the show’s executive producers include Gareth Neame, Nigel Merchant and Joanna Streams of Carnival Films, production company of “Downton Abbey,” “Day of the Jackal” and other shows.

“All Her Fault” consists of eight episodes, all of which will drop Thursday on Peacock. 

With a cast that includes Dakota Fanning (above photo, left), Michael Peña as the detective assigned to the case, and Jack Lacy as Marissa’s husband, father of the missing boy, “All Her Fault” looks like a winner for Peacock.