
Writer Brad Ingelsby grew up in deepest Pennsylvania, and it shows in every second, from the cheese steaks to the small-town gossip channels. However, it was the love pumped into the script – the depth and detail of every character arc and subplot – that set it apart. There was the Saturday Night Live send-up, called Murdur Durdur, which nailed the Philadelphia accent just like Winslet did.
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There were endless stories about this being arguably Winslet’s finest ever performance, plus her refusal to cover up her “ bulgy belly” during sex scenes. There was wild speculation over who killed Erin – and whether anyone would ever stump up the cash for her poor baby’s ear surgery. And so for two months of 2021, Mare-mania took hold. Everyone was in the frame: Erin’s violent dad, her ex-boyfriend, the dodgy deacon, the uncle, even Mare’s ex-husband.

Mare was also investigating the murder of young mother Erin McMenamin and the kidnappings of two other possibly connected women. It wasn’t your fault.” “Yeah,” replies Mare.


At one point Mare’s mum tells her: “That’s what I wish for you, Marianne – that you could forgive yourself for Kevin. What’s more, her grandson Drew could be taken away by his recovering addict mother. She had lost so much: her husband Frank and her son Kevin, who had recently killed himself. Kate Winslet was reticent, morose and utterly mesmerising as Marianne “Mare” Sheehan, the detective carrying the weight, not just of her own family trauma, but of her entire town in Mare of Easttown.
