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Mare of Easttown shares similarities with other gloomy crime dramas and specifically referenced True Detective. However, following the second episode, there is another show Mare draws a more obvious comparison to, and that’s Broadchurch, the popular British serial that also revolved around a murder in a small, close-knit community. There are clear surface similarities: a female police detective tasked with interrogating close friends and acquaintances, the male investigator brought in to help from out of town, the way everyone in Easttown is connected and hiding secrets, there is even...

I stand by my opinion that there are too many detective dramas. There are far too many more detective dramas dealing specifically with the gruesome deaths of young women. The new, Kate Winslet-led drama on HBO Max, Mare of Easttown, is one of these dramas. And yet, unlike so many other tired tales of borderline alcoholic cops and brutalized teenagers, it harnesses the stereotype to tell a bolder, smarter story, rather than regurgitating the same police propaganda we’ve had forced down our throats for decades. To be clear, the audience is supposed to believe that, yes, deep down, Mare is ...

HBO has a new sheriff in town on Sunday nights. In Mare of Easttown, which premieres April 18 and runs for seven weeks, Kate Winslet returns to TV for the first time in a decade to play Mare, a detective in a fictional small Pennsylvania town. Mare is a well-known hometown hero, but the unsolved case of her high school classmate’s missing daughter has already begun to erode her professional reputation when tragedy strikes another young girl in the close-knit area. What begins as a story of a local detective tasked with solving a murder quickly becomes a twisting tale of small town secret...

Chris Vognar April 14, 2021Updated: April 14, 2021, 8:38 pm Kate Winslet in the HBO crime drama “Mare of Easttown.” Photo: Michele K. Short, HBO Mare Sheehan has a big, chilly chip on her shoulder, the result of several years of bad choices and overall misfortune. Twenty-five years ago, back in high school, she hit the winning shot in a Pennsylvania state championship basketball game. That was her peak. Now she’s a much-maligned police detective, mourning her son’s death, quietly aghast at her husband’s remarriage and unable to solve the case of a vanished teenage girl ...

Fans of the regional, character-driven mysteries of Dennis Lehane such as “Mystic River” and “Gone Baby Gone” should make time for HBO’s excellent “Mare of Easttown” as it shares a similar tone regarding the ripple effect of crime on a small town. Fans of HBO literary mystery adaptations like “Sharp Objects,” “Big Little Lies,” and “The Undoing” should do the same. The truth is that anyone with HBO needs to add this to their weekly schedule as it’s the first true must-see drama of 2021, an excellent ensemble piece that works as character study, murder mystery, and ...