Did you see that coming on MareofEasttown? Creator Brad Ingelsby breaks down that ending -- and if there could be a season 2!
"Our goal was always that you arrived at the ending and that you were surprised, but also moved emotionally. And that the audience won't feel cheated or tricked in any way,"creator Brad Ingelsby tells ET by phone, hoping the series has dropped enough hints along the way that viewers won't feel too thrown off by all the twists.
It was Ryan -- a middle schooler! -- who killed Erin. John and Billy helped move the body, and when viewers saw Lori agree to protect her family, she was covering for her son, not her husband. Mare only put all this together after learning from Glen Carroll that his gun had recently been stolen -- with the only other person with a key to his shed being the kid who cuts his lawn, Ryan. His arrest was painful, and caused deep wounds between Mare and Lor.
I think my hesitancy about that is, you know, a couple of things. One is, Mare crosses the line as a detective a few times. I'm not saying it's not possible that Mare would ever have done something like that, but I think more importantly, Mare made a vow to Erin to solve this case and to do justice by her.
You know, I grew up around a lot of women, and so some of those characters were just based on the women that I grew up with. I just spent a lot of time around these women growing up. ... This show was a tribute to the women in my life and my aunts and my mom and my sisters, and so that was really that it was something I wanted to honor.
I think what we -- and this is actually a good idea Kate had, because we had more scenes with Guy in the last episode that hinted there was a relationship that would continue -- but Kate had a really smart idea. And I think it was, it's true in that Mare's act of going over and seeing Lori and embracing her, it was too easy if Mare's life was perfect. If Mare had the guy, she's back on the force, everything in Mary's life was aces. It felt too easy.
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