Mare of Easttown

Neon Mini-series Review #946: MARE OF EASTTOWN

Neon mini-series of 7 episodes featuring Titanic sweet young thing Kate Winslet as a 40-something cop in small town America (no prizes for guessing the name), up against murders and disappearances, all the while navigating her dysfunctional family with its own share of grief and tragedy.

Gritty to the point of sandpapering, various interrelationships don’t seem to distract our girl from pursuing the baddies, and she is not averse to using some skulduggery of her own to get the desired outcome.

Neighbours original Guy Pearce shows up as Mare's love interest, and boy, does he need a haircut. But this is mere folly against the sizable crime-solving challenges Ms Kate is up against.

She eventually solves the puzzles as they always do, but not before a few twists, turns and red herrings trying to influence our choice for killer (I got it at the close of the penultimate episode), and leaning us towards the most obvious candidate.

Kate is superb as Mare of the title (short for Marianne in case you were wondering) and the supporting crew well up to task. I hope there is another series on the horizon as this is certainly one of the better binge watches:

9/10​