Fans of the regional, character-driven mysteries of Dennis Lehane such as “Mystic River” and “Gone Baby Gone” should make time for HBO’s excellent “Mare of Easttown” as it shares a similar tone regarding the ripple effect of crime on a small town. Fans of HBO literary mystery adaptations like “Sharp Objects,” “Big Little Lies,” and “The Undoing” should do the same. The truth is that anyone with HBO needs to add this to their weekly schedule as it’s the first true must-see drama of 2021, an excellent ensemble piece that works as character study, murder mystery, and actor’s showcase. Finely detailed in both setting and character, it’s a tapestry of a mini-series, a piece that centers one of our best living actors while also providing rich, complex characters for an extended ensemble of fantastic performers. Just twisty enough to qualify as a thriller in its script by Brad Ingelsby (“The Way Back”), “Mare of Easttown” rises above mere genre tensio
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Kate Winslet plays Mare Sheehan
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Who is Mare Sheehan? A small-town Pennsylvania detective charged with solving a local murder while her life crumbles around her.
What else has Kate Winslet been in? An A-lister in every sense of the word, Winslet’s filmography includes several huge films and a hoard of awards and nominations. Among the highlights are Oscar nods for Sense and Sensibility, Titanic, Iris, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Children and Steve Jobs, in addition to a win for The Reader. More recently, she starred alongside Saoirse Ronan in Ammonite, while she is also set to feature in the upcoming Avatar sequels.
Mare of Easttown trailer below.
Mare of Easttown Trailer
I’m excited for
Mare of Easttown, which has a great cast and, now, a pretty good trailer! That said, I sure wish someone, somewhere, had suggested a better title. It just sounds…off. It makes me think of
Eastbound and Down, and the use of “Mare” just immediately makes me picture a horse, and I’m pretty neither of those things are what the showrunners of
Mare of Easttown were going for. Even just simply calling it
Easttown would’ve been better.
But I digress. In
Mare of Easttown, Winslet is Mare Sheehan, “a small-town Pennsylvania detective who investigates a local murder as life crumbles around her.” The cast also includes
Mare of Easttown Trailer: Kate Winslet Stars as Detective in HBO Murder Mystery
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Kate Winslet takes on a detective fixed on solving a small-town murder in HBO’s new “Mare of Easttown” trailer, which released on Wednesday.
The limited series created, written and executive produced by showrunner Brad Inglesby features Winslet in the role of Mare Sheehan, a detective from Pennsylvania. The plot centers around her attempt to solve a local murder while also balancing her own personal life, which is rapidly falling apart around her.
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The actor is joined by stars Julianne Nicholson, who plays Mare’s best friend, and Evan Peters, who takes on the role of a county detective tasked with helping Mare solve the crime. The two detectives butt heads over the course of the investigation.