Erin has an awful father named Kenny ( Patrick Murney), who complains about his grandchild's cost on the family, and Erin just needs a way out. Mare also lives with her mother Helen ( Jean Smart) and has a potential love interest in a new writer in town named Richard ( Guy Pearce).Īt the same time across town, Erin McMenamin ( Cailee Spaeny) is a young mother struggling to make ends meet and make the child’s father do his part to care for their son’s medical needs. Mare has another child named Siobhan ( Angourie Rice) and an ex-husband named Frank ( David Denman), who is about to get remarried. Mare also lost a son to suicide not long ago, making her the guardian of her young grandson, whom she now worries may have some of her dad’s neurological tendencies. Strained or lost relationships with children weave their way through much of Ingelsby’s writing. It’s certainly redefined the life of Detective Mare Sheehan ( Kate Winslet), who obsesses about the unsolved case, and not only because she went to high school with the mother of the missing girl. There’s a sense that the year-old disappearance of a young woman in Easttown named Katie Bailey has reshaped the entire town. The disappearance or death of a child changes not just people but entire communities. Remember the buzz around "The Undoing"? This is going to be what everyone is talking about for the next two months and really through the next awards season, where it will be a deserving major player. Just twisty enough to qualify as a thriller in its script by Brad Ingelsby (“The Way Back”), “Mare of Easttown” rises above mere genre tension through ace direction from Craig Zobel (“ Compliance”) and lived-in production values. 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. 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. Fans of HBO literary mystery adaptations like “ Sharp Objects,” “ Big Little Lies,” and “ The Undoing” should do the same. 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.
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