Opinion | emmaladyrose: HBO’s 'Mare of Easttown' gives us a healthy dose of the reality of female friendship, motherhood, and intergenerational trauma. - MSNBCDaily
HBO’s "Mare of Easttown" gives us a healthy dose of the reality of female friendship, motherhood, and intergenerational trauma.Michele K. Short / HBOThree-quarters of the way into the riveting finale of HBO’s “Mare of Easttown” on Sunday night, I turned to my friend Katelyn, a little weepy.“I need them to get back together,” I said. “It’s the only relationship I care about!”
In Easttown, it’s the women who keep things moving — albeit imperfectly — even in the face of trauma and despair. Even the supporting female characters are hardened from trauma: Mare’s mother, Helen , dealt with a strained marriage and still struggles over the way her anger impacted her daughter. Dawn Bailey is trying to keep the town’s attention on the disappearance of her daughter, Katie, who has been missing for a year when the show opens. Kevin’s ex-girlfriend Carrie is trying to get clean, hold a steady job and get custody of her son, Drew, Mare’s grandson.
Mare and Lori’s relationship seems like an exception at the beginning of the miniseries. When Mare acts recklessly, and even cruelly — accusing her ex-husband, Frank, of being the father of Erin’s baby in front of his new fiancée, or planting drugs on Carrie to prevent her from getting custody of Drew, or dragging her ill-fated partner to a suspect’s home while she’s on suspension — it's Lori who is always there to talk her down and offer her a shoulder to lean on.
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