SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the season finale of “Mare of Easttown.” “Mare of Easttown” has, from its first moments, been something special even in a very crowded lane. T…
“Mare of Easttown” has, from its first moments, been something special even in a very crowded lane. The prestige-actress-led murder mystery onhas, in recent years, seen outings that have achieved varying degrees of creative success, among them “Big Little Lies,” “Sharp Objects,” and “The Undoing.” One element that differentiated “Mare,” finally, was that it really stuck the landing, delivering an ending both of narrative wholeness and of real emotional power.
“Mare of Easttown” thus gave us a genuinely surprising conclusion that satisfied the viewer desire for memorable, twisty shock. It also completed a statement it had been making from its first episode. Ryan Ross was drawn into the morass of family drama and sorrow at a tender age; at a time when he might otherwise have been looking ahead, he found himself obsessively working over hurts in his family history.
It’s instructive to compare the ending of “Mare of Easttown” to that of “The Undoing.” That latter episode was widely pilloried when it aired; to this viewer, it wasn’t horribly out-of-step with what had come before, a fun, underbaked show that gave us a few thrills and some nice-looking coats.
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