Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play It was a learning experience and I hope we’ve pulled it off." "If you know where it ends, then you can cheat some things and have the audience leaning here when they should be leaning there. "I very much had to have the ending in my head, even prior to starting the opening scene," showrunner Brad Ingelsby told Collider. ( Big Little Lies got renewed after all.) In the meantime, however, our time in Easttown ends with Episode 7. The show was intended to be a limited series from the start, much like HBO's Watchmen or The Undoing, but that doesn't mean there's no hope for a future installment. But is there hope for the story to continue after this final chapter? It seems unlikely, if we take a look at what the cast and crew have said. ![]() The same, undoubtedly, goes for the series entire.As Mare of Easttown draws to a close tonight, viewers are expecting to see the titular detective (Kate Winslet) uncover the small-town murder mystery while embarking on her own journey of emotional healing. So subtle, understated and multilayered: it was a privilege to witness it. Winslet’s performance as the complicated, loving, fallible and sometimes dislikable Mare has been rightly lauded. ![]() Discuss, probably through tears, either way, once the credits roll. I don’t know if it will be a point of contention picked up by the wider audience, but in debate with others who have become wholly invested in the series and the woman, there seemed to be a fairly swift and strict divide between those who thought Mare should and would have done what she did … and those who thought she shouldn’t and never would have. Everything unravelled and was knitted unwillingly together again to form a much worse, far more tragic story that Mare had to see through to its awful, profoundly moving conclusion. If you have to choose between slightly flawed plotting and dud emotional payoffs, choose the former. There were parts of this final twist that you had to squint at to make work, but it remained emotionally true. Soon, further clues about the case were heaving into Mare’s view. But we knew two things: that there was half an hour left of the running time, and that life doesn’t offer much in the way of respite. Most of us, I suspect, would have left matters quite happily after the first arrest for Erin McMenamin’s murder had been made, Dylan’s motives had been revealed, and the Sheehan family were celebrating the rare averting of a crisis after Drew’s custody hearing (and after Smart showed her equally mighty non-comic chops at the table, conjuring up a lifetime of regret in a few lines – a breakdown over in seconds because nobody has time or energy for more). The finale gave us answers, if not the ones we wanted. Everything unravelled and was knitted unwillingly together again to form a far more tragic story that Mare had to see through to its awful, profoundly moving conclusion ![]() Creator and writer Brad Ingelsby is a native of Pennsylvania and every beat of Mare of Easttown is steeped in love and written unsentimentally from the heart. It showed a part of America that we don’t usually see – unmonied, unglamorous, its collective health and wellbeing eroded by poverty, the opioid crisis and other intractable issues beyond the power of any one person to control. But also a study in the suffering of the missing girl’s mother, Dawn Bailey – knowing too little of her daughter Katie’s fate, while Mare knew too much of her own son’s, whose body she cut down from her attic rafters – and, by the end of the seventh episode, the grief of many, many other individuals and of an entire community. Mare’s, of course: explicitly in some painful scenes with the mandated therapy sessions of which, in one of the many subversions of standard crime drama tropes, Mare decided to take advantage rather than shrug off implicitly in every grim, set line of her face and step of her weary walk. The show has been compared to Sally Wainwright’s Happy Valley for its profound understanding that real life, particularly for middle aged women with their accumulated cares, doesn’t generally offer much respite. The killing of her colleague Colin Zabel during the rescue of two missing girls, including one whose disappearance Mare had been investigating for a year, only replaced one weight of guilt with another. On top of the domestic burdens, Mare had her professional ones. Mare lives with her teenage daughter, Siobhan, and her mother, Helen (Jean Smart), who – although their scenes together were usually played for light relief – possessed in full maternal measure the ability to push every one of Mare’s buttons. It took in more ordinary stresses and strains, too.
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