Mare of easttown finale series#

Winslet is obviously a force, but Nicholson had to get reduced to rubble here, and the final moments, which were about love and forgiveness, resonated louder and harder than any action sequence or chase scene. And Nicholson's performance is the one people should be talking about in the wake of Mare. Over the course of eight months, John went to prison, Mare continued to see Richard, Frank and Faye got on good terms again, Mare and Frank made peace, Siobhan decided to go to Berkeley, and a slew of other maudlin characters got a nice sprinkling of closure. The rest of the finale was sprawling, time-wise.

So the reveal that it had been John Ross who had an affair with Eric and not his brother, got tucked away rather neatly within the first 10 minutes. There wasn’t going to be anyone in that Erin McMenamin picture, which was part of last week's cliffhanger, that was going to completely spin our heads around.

Mare of easttown finale series#

It's all in the title, right? If you continue to care about Mare then it stands to reason you'll be there, along for the ride, for whatever direction the series takes.Ĭreator/writer Brad Ingelsby incorporated how we think into the finale, and so 'Sacrament' was able to embrace some of the time-honored tropes of the genre and coat them with an extra layer of heartache.

But Mare of Easttown wisely knew, from the start, that the best way to frame their series was around the Kate Winslet's flawed, embattled Mare, so that if viewers didn't like the final twist, or if they were able to predict it one or two episodes ahead of time, they'd still be invested in the show and interested in watching it all play out.

Murder dramas can be one of the trickiest planes to land, especially if the resolution comes at the end of a season or series (and not just after one episode).