![]() ![]() Yet the real soul of the finale and indeed the series – written by Brad Ingelsby and directed by Craig Zobel – stemmed from learning to move on and finding new beginnings. Many viewers and media outlets clearly became fixated on the mystery. Not that it marred the show’s overall effect. If that sounds like a lot, it was, and perhaps one twist too many. After John had confessed to the murder, it was revealed that while he had an illicit and incestuous affair with Erin (Cailee Spaeny), he took the blame for her killing to spare his young son, who had stolen a gun to rid his family of the girl he saw as a threat to his parents’ marriage. Still, the show saved its biggest surprise for last. The resolution of the murder mystery, meanwhile, presented Mare’s friend Lori (Julianne Nicholson) with her own moral dilemma, as she was asked to raise the child that her husband, John (Joe Tippett), had with someone else. Over the course of the show, she found a new potential romance – actually two, but never mind – developed sympathy toward the struggling mother of her grandson, and even managed to let go of her daughter (Angourie Rice) enough to allow her to go away to college. Just to recap, when the series began, Kate Winslet’s Mare was angry about, well, pretty much everything – raising her dead son’s little boy, risking losing custody of him, and grappling with the fact that her ex-husband (David Denman) was about to remarry. The finale actually had a big chance of being a letdown, or at least a little anticlimactic, after the riveting shootout that closed its fifth episode, but the two that followed, including Sunday night’s conclusion, still had a lot of business to get done. ![]() Instead, the show dealt with themes of forgiveness, redemption and finding the strength to move past grief and tragedy. “Mare of Easttown’s” heroine finally cracked the case – twice, as it turned out – but that wasn’t really the point of this engrossing HBO limited series. ![]()
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