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I do think that this was one of the more manipulative misdirects. I think the motivation holds up, given what we'd seen in the hospital, but the staging definitely felt geared to mislead the audience.

I ended up watching a movie and then trying again afterward, at which point the issue had been resolved. I will use spoiler tags for the remainder of this post out of deference for others who might not have been able to watch the episode due to technical difficulties.

I've been trying to get into HBO Max for the last twenty minutes without any luck.

The biggest argument in favor of the latter theory is the cafeteria scene where the one kid is picking on Ryan's sister with Down syndrome, and Ryan just beats the living shit out of him with a cafeteria tray. I didn't think much of it at the time, because picking on someone with Down syndrome...

I really appreciated that the show didn't save all of the big reveals for the last five minutes of the last episode. While whatever is on that photograph that Jess brought the police chief will undoubtedly be another big twist in our understanding of what happened, it seems likely that we'll...

My guess is that

That was a heck on an hour of television. The final act was as harrowing as the final act of Silence of the Lambs. Lots of wonderful small details, too. Particularly the way Mare is engaging with therapy, and the impact it's having in terms of being less emotionally closed off. I also really...

The thing I really liked about this episode was the small moments of kindness among really bleak situations and really bleak lives: Mare's friend Lori on the bench with her at the beginning of the episode, being warm and kind to Mare even though she's self-sabotaging at every opportunity. Dawn...

This episode definitely peeled back more layers on Mare's professional life. She's a really sharp and astute detective catching things her colleague from the county sheriff's department missed and making connections he didn't see. At the same time, she's a bit crooked on the margins. We see it...

The second episode delved deeper into this community, and the web of secrets and half-truths surrounding Erin McMenamin's death. I would be very surprised if Guy Pierce's character doesn't tie into the mystery in some way by the end of the season. Mare seems like a very difficult person to...

I've also gotten the sense that the writers are treating the Easttown of the show as a fictional amalgamation of various communities west of Philly and not a representation of the actual township in Chester County. Brad Ingelsby, the show's creator, was born and raised in Berwyn -- which...

HBO's latest serialized crime drama is "Mare from Easttown", starring Kate Winslet in the title role. Mare Sheehan is a local celebrity, whose greatest accomplishment was scoring the game-winning basket in her high school basketball team's championship season back in 1995. Now she is the most...