#MARE OF EASTTOWN EPISODE 7 SERIES#

Drew’s custody is still in the air, although it is quite likely that Carrie will get it. But when Billy is asked about this, he seems quite nervous and leaves.

Mare is also worried about Drew inheriting a similar fate.Īt home, Mare finds out that Erin had lived for a while with Billy, John’s brother.

In therapy, the currently disgraced detective reveals that Kevin was diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome and mood disorders and that her own father committed suicide when she was 13. As Mare helps Drew find his turtle, she comes across a video of Kevin on a former birthday. And it worked.Betty Carroll, the resident old lady who suspects everything, unfortunately, has a heart attack and crashes her car fatally, causing the electricity for the whole town to go out. There’s not necessarily something profound to dig into, it was simply good storytelling that didn’t hinge on shock value Mare was about the connections among these characters, and ultimately, about Mare herself. The fact I’m not even focusing on the reveal that Ryan was the killer, or that Lori lost pretty much every man in her family over the crime and coverup, really speaks volumes. We’ve seen that in other shows, even other crime shows ( Broadchurch is a classic example), but it doesn’t make it any less satisfying to see that community dynamic play out here. The denizens of Easttown revolve around each other, a gravitational pull keeps them connected whether they want to be or not. Still, everyone-from the Baileys to the Del Rassos to Dylan to Jess (Erin’s friend) to Carrie to the Deacon- everyone got a closing moment in the finale, including Guy Pearce (who is off to Bates, but I have hopes for these two crazy kids). The less said about Sibohan’s Berkeley adventure (who is paying for this?) perhaps the better, but her subplot always felt more or less like it was from a different show. Now it’s time for Mare to look at herself and work through her grief. The cases are closed, Siobhan is on her way, Drew is staying with her. When she let her friend hold her in her grief, it changed something for Mare that final, quiet approach to the attic steps spoke volumes about where Mare is now and where she’s headed. And in the end, Lori had to come to terms with the fact that no one could ever know anything close to the pain she was feeling except maybe Mare. That she would close the investigation into Erin’s murder by bringing Ryan Ross in, knowing that she was taking Lori’s son from her, was deeply felt. Mare, of course, felt she had no one to rely on but herself, and used the cases as excuses to not deal with what was really going on inside her.

Everyone held Mare responsible for things that didn’t go right, and yet, also relied on her to make it all better. Though more recently it was a way to distance herself from the pain of losing her son, it was never a clean divide. What Mare of Easttown also showed us throughout its short, well-crafted run was how-despite her personal connections to Easttown-Mare always put her work as a detective above everything else. And all of it took place in the small moments revolving around the community. In the end, it seems like that’s what she did-or at least, is working towards. In a stellar moment later (fittingly ill-timed over a celebration pizza), her mother also apologizes to her and tells her that she wants Mare to forgive herself over Kevin. The second was that Mare took the advice she gave to a grieving Glen that his loss might never get better, but eventually you find that you have to keep paying the bills, washing the sheets, and dealing with life. The first was Chekov’s security camera, which ended up being the evidence Mare needed to wrap up the question of the gun used in the murder, along with the discovery of Ryan Ross’ guilt.

#MARE OF EASTTOWN EPISODE 7 SERIES#

But it was wonderful to see the series begin and end with the Carrolls (RIP Betty) in two meaningful ways. There were some who dismissed the series immediately from the opening scene of the premiere, which seemed at the time like nothing but table setting to highlight Mare’s accents, the kind of place Easttown is, and Mare’s general world-weariness. That resolution came early and felt satisfying, and then the show took its time to tie up other narrative loose ends (Mare’s relationships, primarily). If not Billy, it felt at least like the crime would be connected to the Ross family somehow, and it was no surprise when John admitted his affair and the murder of Erin.

By the end of the penultimate episode the murderer and/or father seemed pretty clearly to be Billy, though seasoned crime show fans know not to ever trust a confession until all is said and done. “Sacrament,” the finale, did this just as masterfully.

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