Priyanka Roy | | Published 06.05.21, 02:36 AM
Mystic River meets Broadchurch meets Top of the Lake with Kate Winslet leading the charge in Mare of Easttown. This seven-episode limited series (of which three are now available on Disney+Hotstar, with a new episode dropping every Monday) is the quintessential slow-burn thriller set in small-town America where the tension simmers below the surface to build a pressure cooker-like situation, ultimately exploding in a turn of events that impacts almost every life in town.
Mare of Easttown is, well, set in sleepy Easttown, Pennsylvania, with Winslet playing a world-weary detective called, well, Mare Sheehan. A former high-school basketball star, Mare is now a divorcee with a dead son and a four-year-old grandson whose custody she’s determined to keep at all costs from the boy’s mother, who is just out of rehab. F