When Mare realizes, via a conversation with widower Glen Carroll (Patrick McDade), that the real killer was Ryan(*) - who stole the distinctive murder weapon from Glen’s shed, having seen it when he mowed the Carroll family’s lawn(**) - it is perhaps not jaw-dropping to us, but it sure is to Mare. What Mare creator Brad Ingelsby understands is that it’s less important to surprise the audience than to surprise the characters. In the former case, it seems like the show hasn’t played fair in the latter, it seems predictable.
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This can be dangerous territory for a long-form TV mystery to enter, because the audience can feel just as frustrated by not having predicted the killer’s identity than if they did. But the Winslet-Pearce chemistry has its unplanned tradeoffs. And he doesn’t do or say anything to cast suspicion on himself beyond who is playing him.
Richard, it turns out, is just in the story as part of Mare’s larger journey towards allowing herself to be happy again. (*) Pearce (who co-starred in Winslet’s last HBO miniseries, Mildred Pierce ) was a last-minute replacement for Ben Miles from The Crown, who’s just barely anonymous enough (especially in America) not to invoke our reflexive assumption that the most recognizable person in the story who doesn’t otherwise have plot utility must be the bad guy. So that leaves two candidates for our final twist: Lori, because Nicholson is also arguably too familiar to be relegated to the supportive friend role, or John and Lori’s son Ryan (Cameron Mann), who has come across as more troubled than a boy might be solely from knowing about his father’s adultery. The Ross family is clearly involved in some way with Erin’s death, which eliminates Mare’s boyfriend Richard as a suspect, even though Guy Pearce is perhaps too famous to just be playing the love interest in a mystery like this(*). He’s foiled by both Billy and Mare, who wrestle the gun away as John pleads for Mare to just kill him.Īll of this action unfolds within the first few minutes of “Sacrament,” leaving anyone watching to recognize that there has to be at least one more twist coming. Mare arrives at the river - the first of two times in this episode when her mere presence changes everything for the member of the Ross family who sees her - and John’s plans abruptly change to suicide. We see that the photo is of John - who had a history of cheating on his wife, Mare’s best friend Lori (Julianne Nicholson) - in bed with Erin, and realize that he is planning to kill Billy as a patsy to cover up his own crimes.
We open with the Ross brothers trying to fish even as both are aware of the gun John has hidden in his tackle box, presumably to use on Billy.
She was heading to confront Billy and his brother John (Joe Tippett) at their father’s fishing cabin, when Chief Carter (John Douglas Thompson) was presented with a photo suggesting that Mare didn’t understand what really happened. The sixth episode ended on a cliffhanger: Mare believed that Erin had been killed by the real father of baby DJ, Erin’s cousin Billy Ross (Robbie Tann). It wasn’t always graceful, but the finale, titled “Sacrament,” felt like the proper and satisfying conclusion - emotionally, if not always plot-wise - to all that had come before.
As the next bit of homicidal awards bait in the rotation, Mare had a lot of pressure to wrap up its stories in a way that didn’t inspire bitter profanity (preferably pronounced with a lot of long-O sounds).Īnd these final chapters accomplished all of that. But the inert, helicopter-abetted Undoing finale was a historical stinker, the kind that casts a long shadow over any remotely similar project that follows. The initial run of Big Little Lies ended very well (continuing the show beyond its first season was the problem), as did Sharp Objects. HBO actually has a pretty good track record in recent years when it comes to resolving its prestige mystery miniseries. Related: Watch Mare of Easttown on HBO Max here
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There were screencaps and GIFs of Kate Winslet as Mare eating hoagies and cheesesteaks and spray cheese, and loving tributes to Evan Peters making himself the King of Screen Drunk Acting for the wonderful scene where Colin Zabel (RIP) threw himself at Mare at a bar.īut there was a nerve-wracking party game, too: Would Mare stick the landing, or would it go full Undoing in the finale? There was the analysis of all the thick DelCo accents, with some viewers offering up their own versions. This column contains spoilers for the finale of Mare of Easttown, available now on HBO and HBO Max.įor a show whose characters seemed congenitally incapable of smiling or experiencing joy, Mare of Easttown inspired a lot of amusing side discussions among its audience.
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