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01 Jun

The Mare of Easttown Finale Broke HBO Max

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Late on the Sunday night of Memorial Day weekend, WarnerMedia did the unthinkable: they disappointed my mother.  At precisely 10:09 p.m. ET, the following text flashed across my phone screen “Omg. HBO is down! Too many people trying to watch Mare” Sure enough, the anticipated finale for crime drama Mare of Easttown was not loading on the WarnerMedia streaming service HBO Max and it would remain inaccessible for around 25 minutes. The Internet reacted with disappointment similar to Mother Bojalad.  Everyone checking Twitter to confirm @hbomax is down during #MareOfEasttown finale. pic.twitter.com/xG4Ml7094R— Cat Williams (@dizzycatdesign) May 31, 2021 #MareOfEasttown the…
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31 May

Mare of Easttown Ending Explained: Who Killed Erin McMenamin?

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This article contains spoilers for the Mare of Easttown finale. Mare of Easttown creator Brad Inglesby never wanted the ending of his detective story to come completely out of leftfield (or to use a basketball analogy in honor of the title character: be a half-court heave).  In speaking to Collider in advance of the series (or season?) finale, Inglesby said: “I hope (the) audience trusts that we’ll do right, in terms of the ending. It’s not gonna be one of those endings where it’s like, ‘If you blinked in episode 1, it was that weird guy in the woods,’ or…
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31 May

Mare of Easttown Season 2: Will Kate Winslet Return for Another Case?

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When it comes to zeitgeist-capturing crime dramas, HBO just absolutely cannot miss. It seems like every couple months or so, the hallowed pay cable network (and now streaming service…kind of) presents a compelling crime drama that captures TV fans’ imaginations. The latest effort is the excellent Mare of Easttown, starring Kate Winslet as the titular small town Pennsylvania detective with an affinity for Wawa hoagies. Mare of Easttown wrapped up its story superbly in its seventh and final episode Sunday night. The case of Erin McMenamin’s murder has been wrapped up definitively and Mare and her community have begun the…
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25 May

Mare of Easttown: Why Ryan Ross is Key to the Erin Murder Mystery

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Warning: contains spoilers for Mare of Easttown episodes 1-6. Crime mystery dramas have various mechanisms for holding back essential witness information until a final episode. The coma trick – whereby a witness spends most of the series lying unresponsive in a hospital bed and then wakes up just in time to provide the penultimate episode cliff-hanger – is tried and tested. Another fix is to make the witness a criminal/adulterer/relapsing addict who stays quiet about what they know because it would also incriminate them. Alternatively, you could just make the key witness a person nobody would think to interrogate until the last…
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17 May

Mare of Easttown Is a Story of Addiction

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This article contains spoilers for Mare of Easttown through episode 5. On its surface, Mare of Easttown is a murder mystery: Who killed poor, sweet, Erin McMenamin? By the time the credits roll on the final episode, we will almost certainly have that answer (unless we don’t). Yet, the connective tissue of the series goes much deeper than a simple whodunnit. The threads that bind the citizens of Easttown together are woven through with unspoken pain, loss, and tightly held secrets.  Of course, Easttown itself is meant to be a primary character in the show. Ever since the endless “squee-ing”…
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11 May

Mare of Easttown: Why Fans Should Watch Happy Valley

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Warning: contains plot descriptions for Mare of Easttown and Happy Valley Mare Sheehan and Catherine Cawood are both working class, fortysomething police officers in small towns where opioid addiction is rife. They’re divorced and live close to their exes. They have a cantankerous relationship with their live-in mother/sister (delete as appropriate). They each had a son and a daughter, one of whom took their own life, leaving behind a grandson to raise. The grandson’s surviving parent has a history of drugs and violent crime, and Mare and Catherine would do anything to keep them away.  Played respectively by Kate Winslet…
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10 May

Mare of Easttown: What If No One Killed Erin McMenamin?

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The following contains spoilers for Mare of Easttown through episode 4. Who killed Erin McMenamin? That’s the question at the center of HBO’s atmospheric crime drama Mare of Easttown…alongside “how does Kate Winslet pull off that Wawa-saturated accent?” The show offers no shortage of suspects. Seemingly every single character on Mare of Easttown has both cause and some sort of backwards reasoning for killing the innocent young mother played by Cailee Spaeny. Mare’s ex-husband Frank (David Denman) is rumored to have fathered Erin’s son DJ (though that theory is disproven in this week’s episode 4 “Poor Sisyphus”). Erin’s ex-boyfriend Dylan…
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19 Apr

Mare of Easttown’s Saddest Moment Isn’t Even the Murder

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This article contains spoilers for Mare of Easttown episode 1. There’s a dead body at the end of Mare of Easttown’s first episode. But you already knew that.  Even if you’ve not seen episode 1, “Miss Lady Hawk Herself”, you just intrinsically know that the HBO series starring Kate Winslet as an Eastern Pennsylvanian detective features a murder. That’s because crime dramas on television have developed a consistent, grim rhythm. From Broadchurch to True Detective to beyond, the first episode of any given crime drama will feature the discovery of a dead body.  The body in question will have belonged…
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