Mare of Easttown

Mare of Easttown was an awesome limited series on HBO. I was emailing back and forth with my friend Derek about the finale this week. His synoptic take was better than anything I could write:

“Mare of Easttown was a stunning piece of writing — crossing a murder mystery with generational family/town psychoanalysis. Kate Winslet and the rest of the cast are incredible, with maybe the best weekly cliff-hangers ever.

A first-rate whodunit set in PA with just about every small town dysfunctional family character trait and pathology (drugs, depression, suicide,…