Megan "Meg" Abbott

Meg Abbott is a young woman in Mapleton planning her wedding, still raw from her mother's death just before the Sudden Departure swallowed the world's attention. Nobody has room left to mourn an ordinary loss. Restless and increasingly detached from her fiancé and her old life, she starts drifting toward the silent, chain-smoking discipline of the Guilty Remnant.

Liv Tyler plays her as a held breath — pleasant, composed, almost blank, until you notice the fury underneath waiting for permission. The writing uses Meg to show how grief that goes unacknowledged doesn't disappear, it curdles, and her slow pivot toward the cult's cold certainty feels less like conversion than relief.