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So many people sat down to watch the Mare of Easttown season finale that WarnerMedia's streaming service broke and went offline for 25 minutes. As we discovered in the Slack channel this morning, half of the Stranger's staffers counted ourselves among the group of viewers anxiously waiting to find out who murdurd that jagoff's durdur in a small town east of Philadelphia. While none of us had tons to say about the crime drama's surprising.
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…)?
"Mare of Easttown" has introduced HBO viewers to a town in which anyone could be the killer over the last three episode. Here are all the possible killers of Erin.