I read Reddit threads, and every week I’ve been convinced of a new theory about who the murderer is. For the last seven weeks, I’ve planned my entire Sunday around sitting down on my couch in time to watch the show so that nothing is spoiled for me. But aside from Kate Winslet’s and Jean Smart’s performances, my favorite thing is actually my own obsession with it. He’s cute and I love that for Mare - because god knows she deserves a break and some love in her life or even just some fun. Krystie: I might be the only Mare head who’s not obsessed with Guy Pearce’s character. In any case, if Guy said the word “darling” in my presence, I would immediately just lie down and allow my body to expire. Clearly no one on the writing staff has released a book as an academic to minimal fanfare. Who is paying for all that free wine and cheese? My book launch happened in Toronto, a city that seems much bigger than Easttown (which, also, I keep calling Eastwick in my head), and I had it at a dive bar, in the dark, and everyone had to fend for themselves. I’m also really struggling with how small this town is supposed to be and how big that book launch was. Scaachi: I love Guy in the pants department, but having him in the show makes no sense. The way he just…moves away at the end? Useless plotline. That said, there was absolutely no reason for his character. Shannon: Swoon! I too love him in it, even though his character definitely feels like… what are you doing here? I’m glad he wasn’t the killer, because why would it be this random visiting writer? That would have betrayed the theme of how all these people grew up together and ended up fucking each other up in various ways. He told Entertainment Weekly, “My lovely old friend Kate Winslet called me and said, ‘Darling, darling, darling, I'm doing this show and you have to come and do it.’ I went, ‘I'm in.’" Guy and Kate were in Mildred Pierce together. I initially thought they were in Massachusetts? Whoops.Įstelle: What’s your favorite thing about the show? One of mine is Guy Pearce, a handsome red herring. I’m sure it would bug me more if I were from Pennsylvania or more familiar with it. She disappears into this role! I saw a lot of talk about how bad her accent was, which turned me off at first, but it ended up not bothering me at all. Shannon: Kate is marvelous she truly is Mare. Mare is so closed off, and yet you can see she's fending off a hailstorm of emotions every minute. Luckily, I was right!Įstelle: Kate Winslet isn't flashy in this, but it’s one of my favorite dramatic performances in a minute. I’ll watch the pilot of anything, and I had a hunch that if Winslet had signed up to do an HBO small-town-murder limited series, it had to be worth my time in some regard. Krystie Yandoli: A day or two before it started, I saw reviews and billboards around Los Angeles for a murder mystery starring Kate Winslet, and that was all I needed to know. Not typically my style, but HBO + Kate is all I needed to buy in here. I have a lot of friends who are die-hard crime drama fans and will watch, like, every single British show about a grizzled detective solving murders on the seashore or whatever. Shannon Keating: I too am a big Kate fan and have been since I was a tiny lesbian. But I was interested in seeing Kate Winslet attempt an American accent. Mostly because I don’t know how many dreary white-lady-goes-missing shows I can really tolerate. Scaachi Koul: I don’t think I would’ve watched the show without seeing that Kate Winslet was in it. Originally I thought it was going to be about some 1800s dame in England.) (Spoilers for the finale below.)Įstelle Tang: What got you into watching the show? When did you know you were a Mare head? (Also, I can’t get over the show being called Mare of Easttown. Over at the BuzzFeed News culture desk, we miserably wondered what we would do on Sunday nights without our favorite show and decided to deal with our malaise by discussing everything about Mare, from the theories to the disappointments and that devastating ending. Boasting Kate Winslet in the title role, twisty plotlines, and breakneck pacing, the series earned fans aplenty over the course of its seven-episode run. On Sunday night, HBO crime drama Mare of Easttown came to an end.
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