Kate Winslet is Mare of Easttown, a police detective with personal and professional problems.
Nothing new there, but Winslet's multilayered performance, as well as Jean Smart as her mother and Guy Pearce as a potential suitor really raise this up several levels.
Mare comes off as tough, angry, and abrupt, but we soon see why. In uniform, with her hair pulled back and unmade-up, she can be intimidating. Out for the evening, she is very beautiful.
That's all on the outside. She's a grieving woman in denial and so terrified of her grandson's mother getting custody that she is driven to desperate measures.
She is also facing criticism for not solving a young woman's disappearance a year earlier - this comes to the fore again with another disappearance and a murder.
Atmospheric, absorbing, with a few surprises, Mare of Easttown is a little too long, but poignant and satisfying.
Nothing new there, but Winslet's multilayered performance, as well as Jean Smart as her mother and Guy Pearce as a potential suitor really raise this up several levels.
Mare comes off as tough, angry, and abrupt, but we soon see why. In uniform, with her hair pulled back and unmade-up, she can be intimidating. Out for the evening, she is very beautiful.
That's all on the outside. She's a grieving woman in denial and so terrified of her grandson's mother getting custody that she is driven to desperate measures.
She is also facing criticism for not solving a young woman's disappearance a year earlier - this comes to the fore again with another disappearance and a murder.
Atmospheric, absorbing, with a few surprises, Mare of Easttown is a little too long, but poignant and satisfying.