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Mare of Easttown is a crime drama that feels like a family feud
Kate Winslet is a Mare of a different color in Mare of Easttown.
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The sheer number of television shows that can be described as curmudgeonly detective solves a dead girl case while their personal/romantic life falls apart is beyond counting at this point, but the trope is common for a reason. When done well, it makes for
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In the well-wrought Mare of Easttown, which airs Sundays on HBO, Kate Winslet plays Mare Sheehan, a police detective in a Pennsylvania small town dealing with the death of a teenage girl and the possibly related disappearance of another a year before.
In some surely unintended way, it feels like a corrective to the glamorous, shallow, uptown hokum of The Undoing HBO s most-watched show of 2020, so I use the term corrective advisedly and personally. From the five episodes available for review, out of seven, the limited series also seems liable to eschew the artier conceits of the network s True Detective in favor of something more workaday, though one never knows what surprises an additional two hours of television might bring.
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Mare of Easttown shares similarities with other gloomy crime dramas and specifically referenced
True Detective. However, following the second episode, there is another show
Mare draws a more obvious comparison to, and thatâs
Broadchurch, the popular British serial that also revolved around a murder in a small, close-knit community.
There are clear surface similarities: a female police detective tasked with interrogating close friends and acquaintances, the male investigator brought in to help from out of town, the way everyone in Easttown is connected and hiding secrets, there is even the noticeable vernacular (except the Dorset accents have been replaced by the distinct tones of Delaware County). And, like