![]() I’m not sure that Mare of Easttown was a flawless show. If Mare hadn’t solved the case, she tells her therapist toward the end of the finale, Lori would “still have her family.” ![]() And, most agonizingly of all, there’s Lori (Julianne Nicholson), Mare’s best friend, whose middle-schooler son, Ryan (Cameron Mann), is revealed finally as the killer of Erin McMenamin (Cailee Spaeny), his cousin. There’s Carrie (Sosie Bacon), the mother of Mare’s grandchild, who forgoes her custody battle after she relapses on drugs. There’s the grieving mother of Mare’s short-lived detective partner, Colin Zabel (played by Evan Peters), who slaps Mare so hard when she goes to give her condolences that all Mare can do is mutely cup her cheek in response. The particularly awful irony of the Mare finale, which aired tonight, was that its protagonist, a woman who deflected the pain of losing her own child by trying to save others, ends up implicated in taking so many mothers’ children away. It’s left to the women, the mothers, to do the things that matter. The men in the show fight, cheat, steal, throw milk bottles impetuously through windows, recoil at the sight of blood. Mare sounds like mère, the French word for “mother,” and Easttown as it’s portrayed in Brad Ingelsby’s HBO miniseries is a fascinating matriarchy. ![]() But she also has a mission that’s a kind of curse. Mare inhales cheesesteaks without pausing for breath she runs headlong into cursed attics and bottles up her feelings like home brew. (“So she’s the mayor?” people might ask if you recommend the series, and in a way, she is.) “Mare” is short for “Marianne,” the latter of which befits Kate Winslet’s scruffy, vape-slurping Delaware County detective about as naturally as the ancient, crumb-encrusted lipstick she digs out of a drawer in the second episode. Mare of Easttown is a strange name for a prestige television show: clunky, nondescriptive, homonymic. This article contains spoilers through the entirety of Mare of Easttown.
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