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I stand by my opinion that there are too many detective dramas. There are far too many
more detective dramas dealing specifically with the gruesome deaths of young women. The new, Kate Winslet-led drama on HBO Max,
Mare of Easttown, is one of these dramas. And yet, unlike so many other tired tales of borderline alcoholic cops and brutalized teenagers, it harnesses the stereotype to tell a bolder, smarter story, rather than regurgitating the same police propaganda we’ve had forced down our throats for decades.
To be clear, the audience is supposed to believe that, yes, deep down, Mare is a good cop. We just can’t be positive she’s a good person.
HBO has a new sheriff in town on Sunday nights. In
Mare of Easttown, which premieres April 18 and runs for seven weeks, Kate Winslet returns to TV for the first time in a decade to play Mare, a detective in a fictional small Pennsylvania town.
Mare is a well-known hometown hero, but the unsolved case of her high school classmate’s missing daughter has already begun to erode her professional reputation when tragedy strikes another young girl in the close-knit area. What begins as a story of a local detective tasked with solving a murder quickly becomes a twisting tale of small town secrets and trauma. It’s both a gripping mystery and a portrait of interconnected families wading through deep hardship more poignant and well-rounded than many recent crime shows.
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Kate Winslet in the HBO crime drama “Mare of Easttown.” Photo: Michele K. Short, HBO
Mare Sheehan has a big, chilly chip on her shoulder, the result of several years of bad choices and overall misfortune.
Twenty-five years ago, back in high school, she hit the winning shot in a Pennsylvania state championship basketball game. That was her peak. Now she’s a much-maligned police detective, mourning her son’s death, quietly aghast at her husband’s remarriage and unable to solve the case of a vanished teenage girl two years prior. The last thing she needs is a strange murder, of another teenage girl, to fall in her lap.