Alongside her, we surveyed the endless list of possible suspects in Erin’s murder - her ex-boyfriend, his current girlfriend, Erin’s father, Mare’s ex-husband, the over-involved priest and, as we made our way through the penultimate episode, Billy Ross (Robbie Tann) or John Ross (Joe Tippett), off on the most menacing fishing expedition since Neri took Fredo out on Lake Tahoe. Mare ( Kate Winslet) is initially presented as the classic ground-down cop, if not world-weary then Easttown-weary: She believes she knows what’s going on with Betty Carroll and her worries about a teenage creeper with Dawn’s (Enid Graham) missing daughter, who Mare is convinced is dead with Zabel’s abilities and feelings toward her with her own mental health in the wake of her son’s suicide. So many series become so intent on pulling off a shocking reveal that the final episode can feel more like a narrative magic trick than an actual resolution to the events that preceded it.Īmazingly, this was not the case in “Mare of Easttown.” All along, the show has played with the dangers of assuming that familiarity equals understanding. The revelation would take a lot of ’splaining and likely force viewers to choose between the surprise and the show. It would not be who we were led to believe it was (a pretty neat trick because so many characters had been presented as likely suspects over the course of the show). I went into this finale with three expectations: The murder of Erin McMenamin would be solved. Mary McNamara: I’m not going to say I told you so, but I did tell you so, and I have the Slack messages to prove it.
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