Easttown, Pennsylvania, is an unforgiving place, nevertheless it has nothing on Mare Sheehan (Kate Winslet). The fortysomething detective is no-nonsense and shoots from the hip, and she or he doesn’t have time for fools. When a teenage mom is discovered brutally murdered in a ravine, she has to determine not solely who did it and why, but additionally the way it connects to a younger girl’s disappearance within the current previous.
If it have been only a thriller present, Mare of Easttown would merely be nice. However the genius of the restricted collection is the way it additionally capabilities as a personality examine of a girl barely holding on beneath the load of overwhelming trauma. Mare is imperfect, and she or he’s steadily haunted by the errors she made in her previous.
Winslet embodies Mare warts and all, and offers a efficiency that ranks as among the best on tv within the final decade. She’s as very good because the present she’s in, and the stellar forged (Jean Good, Julianne Nicholson and Evan Peters) who help her. A second season has been talked about, however nothing has been confirmed but. Cross your fingers that Mare returns to unravel one other case and battle extra of her internal demons.
