Buckle up hogie lovers: Will Kate Winslet s detective track down the killer in time?
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Grab a cheesesteak, crack open another Rolling Rock and get that vape stick going – we have a whole heap of Mare of Easttown theories to sift through. The penultimate episode of the superb Kate Winslet crime drama left us on a cliffhanger, with Winslet’s frumpy heroine Mare Sheehan hotfooting it to a secluded fishing spot to apprehend the man she believes murdered teenage mom Erin McMenamin.
The drama, however, has delighted in wrongfooting us so far and there are still many questions left unanswered, not least: who is the real father of Erin’s infant son, DJ? And what became of the murder weapon (which, lest we forget, was an old police-issue handgun, the like of which was used by Mare’s father…)?
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Whodunit, Lady Hawk? HBO-made, Sky Atlantic-aired detective drama Mare Of Easttown passed its midway point with another head-spinning plot twist at the climax of episode four, enigmatically titled âPoor Sisyphusâ.
After college girl-turned-sex worker Missy Sager (Sasha Frolova) was violently abducted, âGone Girl Number 3â (as cable news dubbed her) was unceremoniously slung into the same dingy basement as Katie Bailey â the local girl who, as the series began, had been missing for exactly one year.Â
Has Katie been held hostage here all this time? And did the kidnapper also murder 16-year-old Erin McMenamin, who we discovered had signed up with the same âescortâ website? After all, the modus operandi were very different. Katie and Haley were both known drug users who turned to prostitution and suddenly disappeared, whereas teen mom Erin was found shot in the temple, stripped naked and openly dumped in a
One thing that I really appreciate about
Mare of Easstown is the urgency with which characters share information. In these murder mystery shows, the audience is often aware of crucial details weeks before the characters decide to open up to one another. That can become frustrating the longer it drags on.
Mare is refreshing in that regard, and this third episode, in particular, wastes no time spilling its secrets to anyone in earshot.
Following last weekâs revelation that Frank (David Denman) might be the real father of Erinâs (Cailee Spaeny) baby, Lori (Julianne Nicholson) quickly brings her best friend Mare (Kate Winslet) up to speed. While initially taken aback by the news, Mare, likewise, chooses not to sit on the info and immediately heads over to Frankâs to confront him, interrupting family game night in the process. The quickness at which all of this happened left me a little shocked, as Iâm so used to murder shows playing coy.