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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…