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Our look at Spring TV is chock-full of shows you wont want to miss. Things are made worse for Mare due to an unsolved missing person’s case that’s been sitting on her lap for a year. It doesn’t help that the missing girl’s mother, one of Mare’s old high school teammates, is on the local news badmouthing the police. There are no leads or current suspects, but Mare believes she’s exhausted every avenue. And with the girl being a known drug abuser with a history of pr...

Our look at Spring TV is chock-full of shows you wont want to miss. Things are made worse for Mare due to an unsolved missing person’s case that’s been sitting on her lap for a year. It doesn’t help that the missing girl’s mother, one of Mare’s old high school teammates, is on the local news badmouthing the police. There are no leads or current suspects, but Mare believes she’s exhausted every avenue. And with the girl being a known drug abuser with a history of pr...

The global protests that followed the death of George Floyd didn’t just renew scrutiny about American policing. They also sparked, for the first time, an examination of how police procedurals have fortified inequities in the justice system by oversimplifying police work and deifying those who do it. There’s been woefully little progress toward police reform since last summer, but cop shows are, at the very least, showing their characters grapple with the part they play in a system that prod...

Craig Zobel previews the drama about a former high school basketball star solving gritty crimes in her close-knit hometown.

Kate Winslet is a ferocious marvel as a small-town Pennsylvania detective whose messy life doesnt deter her from the job. Mare, a former high school basketball superstar who the town still recognizes, is an “interesting woman that I haven’t seen on television before, at least not recently,” Zobel says. Indeed, whether it’s her tense home life, where tragedy lingers, or the fame that gets in the way of solving crimes, she’s anything but conventional. At work, she’s ...

Kate Winslet stars in HBOs "Mare of Easttown." File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo Kate Winslet arrives on the red carpet for the 88th Academy Awards on February 28, 2016. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo Kate Winslet attends the EE British Academy Film Awards at The Royal Opera House in London on February 14, 2016. File Photo by Paul Treadway/ UPI | License Photo Kate Winslet attends the 22nd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, California on January 30, 2...

Print Many smart people put a lot of work into “Mare of Easttown,” a new crime drama debuting Sunday on HBO. There is Kate Winslet, giving it her clenched-jaw all as a conflicted detective investigating a murder in her small Pennsylvania town. There is creator Brad Ingelsby, packing the seven-episode limited series with dysfunctional families, fraught small-town ties, and a suspect pool that includes creepy fathers, creepy priests and a creepy kid in a hoodie. There is also the top-notch su...

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Under the intuitive direction of Craig Zobel, all the actors come up aces. • 5 min read Kate Winslet and Guy Pearce in "Mare of Easttown," 2021. What a juicy, jolting surprise to sit down with “Mare of Easttown,” the compulsively watchable crime thriller kicking off April 18 on HBO. Kate Winslet stars as a brilliant, small-town Pennsylvania detective up against locals from a downtrodden Philadelphia suburb ...

Kate Winslet shines as a broken-down, small-town detective in HBO's 'Mare of Easttown.' Also on board are Jean Smart, Evan Peters and Guy Pearce.

One sign that a show has grabbed you and wont let go is when one of the characters does something so maddeningly self-destructive that you yell at the TV screen. I yelled more than once at "Mare of Easttown," an absorbing new drama coming to HBO on April 18. Thats a good thing. A really good thing. Speaking of really good, that doesnt begin to describe the performance of Kate Winslet as Mare Sheehan, a broken-down detective in the small Pennsylvania town of the title. She has issues galore, pro...