![]() ![]() Dawn Bailey, Katie's mother, believes that the police department, including her longtime friend Mare, has failed and even given up in its search for her daughter. They know each other's brokenness and hold each other close anyway."Īt the start of the series, we meet a town that has been torn apart by the disappearance of a young girl, Katie Bailey. "It's about suffering and loss and redemption, about family and community and place. "There's a Catholic sensibility throughout," says Kim Daniels, who has family ties to Delco and is an unabashed fan of the show. ![]() While none of the characters in "Mare of Easttown," save the local priest and deacon, are especially religious or pious, viewers get glimpses of Catholicism in every episode. Here, the lives of shop owners, police officers and next door neighbors are all intertwined in a messy and entertaining fashion. Over the seven-episode series - with its season finale set to air on May 30 - viewers are introduced to a range of characters in this fictional town in the Philadelphia suburbs of Delaware County (or Delco, as it's colloquially known). Mare's ex-husband, Frank, and his new fiancé reside in the house behind them. Several scenes later, we find him in Mare's kitchen, mixing up cocktails for Mare's mother, who lives in the home shared by three generations of Sheehans, including Mare's grandson who she is helping to raise following the suicide of her own son. Hastings, the priest, we soon learn, is Mare's cousin. ![]() For others, it simply represents what happens in a place like Easttown, where everybody knows (or is related to) everybody. Dan Hastings I sent him."Ĭriminal charges aren't pressed, and Mare (played by Kate Winslet) instructs the officer to call the gas company to have Freddie's heat turned back on, while he's sent to the local Catholic parish's shelter for the weekend.įor some, the scene may inspire a model of better policing. Michael's," Mare tells her accompanying officer. The question now is whether viewers are ready to let go too.In one of the opening scenes of the HBO crime miniseries " Mare of Easttown," small town Pennsylvania detective Mare Sheehan chases down a burglar, arriving on the scene to find the culprit is Freddie Hanlon, addicted to opioids and living without heat, who is the brother to her high school friend Beth. We know that they're on the path to healing." It's more of a departure from the characters. "It's not even that the end is an ending necessarily. And I think the same can be said for Mare of Easttown, in that, of course, I will always feel love and attachment to these characters in this world. Seeking out a second season of Mare "would be like asking for Season 3 of Fleabag ," she previously told. While Rice, who played Mare's daughter Siobhan, would love to do another season, she thinks the ending is "perfect" as is. Angourie Rice says we're letting the characters go. So at least I feel strong in that way," he told MovieMaker magazine. "We didn’t make it more episodes just to kind of pad it out. I knew exactly where it ended and then it was just a game of how do you plant the seeds and the payoffs and set it up in a way where the audience isn’t feeling cheated in the end."ĭirector Craig Zobel also said the seven-episode arc was the right length for this story. He also told IndieWire, "When you get to the final episode of the show, you have to stick the landing. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play It was a learning experience and I hope we’ve pulled it off." "If you know where it ends, then you can cheat some things and have the audience leaning here when they should be leaning there. "I very much had to have the ending in my head, even prior to starting the opening scene," showrunner Brad Ingelsby told Collider. ( Big Little Lies got renewed after all.) In the meantime, however, our time in Easttown ends with Episode 7. The show was intended to be a limited series from the start, much like HBO's Watchmen or The Undoing, but that doesn't mean there's no hope for a future installment. But is there hope for the story to continue after this final chapter? It seems unlikely, if we take a look at what the cast and crew have said. As Mare of Easttown draws to a close tonight, viewers are expecting to see the titular detective (Kate Winslet) uncover the small-town murder mystery while embarking on her own journey of emotional healing. ![]()
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