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Mare of easttown episode season 1 episode 112/20/2023 ![]() She wears the emotional weight Mare is carrying, and makes plain how much Mare is taking the town’s rejection of her personally. She’s eyeing up suspects and collecting enemies, and Kate Winslet’s gruffness remains impressive. And in her attempts to figure out what happened to Erin and Katie, Mare isn’t making many friends. These are the people she’s known her whole life, in the town she’s lived in her whole life, and all of them seem to be hiding something. Dylan’s new girlfriend Brianna is unhinged in her cruelty, from the terrible catfishing scheme and attack she dreamed up for Erin to the horribly vicious way she spits at Mare, “No wonder your son killed himself.” This second Mare of Easttown episode, “Fathers,” doesn’t so much peel away the layers of Easttown’s dysfunction as it shoves them directly in Mare’s face. ![]() Erin’s boyfriend Dylan is smug and was clearly an asshole to her. ![]() Erin’s father Kenny is hotheaded and probably was abusive toward his daughter. Opioids are clearly a problem, and they unfortunately drive people like Beth’s brother Freddie to crime. Is everyone in Easttown “a good person”? Absolutely not. You build a network, and it’s easy to assume that everyone in that network is a good person.Īnd then you have a place like Easttown. You have co-workers and people you begin to recognize from the gym or the grocery store or wherever else you go. You make friends, you fall in love, you might have kids. Most of us spend our entire lives craving, and building toward, intimacy, camaraderie, and solidarity with people. ![]() HBO’s last flashy series about the murder of a beautiful young mom, The Undoing, was similarly about this very concept, as was the book on which it was based, You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz. Of course, that statement could apply to any sort of crime-focused TV show, movie, book, or whatever other form of media. ![]()
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