First let me say that I absolutely love Kate Winslet, I have been a huge fan of her for years and I'm pretty sure I've watched everything she's appeared in. Everyone is always raving about Mare of Easttown, I love Kate and I'm from Philly which is very close to where this was filmed and takes place so I figured I'd try watching it again because the first time I couldn't get through the first episode.
I love a good twist ending but it not only has to be logical but it also has to be possible and this "twist" feels like it was thrown in just for the wow factor. We see the priest dumping her bike after knowing he was the last person Erin spoke to and then Dylan breaking into her house to burn all her journals and sneaking out the night she was killed. Both of these were just red herrings to make viewers believe one of them was the killer. Then there's the other "obvious" suspect, Guy Pearce, the new guy in town who happens to bed our lead detective several times.
How many shows have there been where the female detective has no clue that her husband/boyfriend/whatever is really the killer and she had no clue the whole time. What was the point of the other kidnapper/murderer ? Also what was the point of making it look like John was molesting his own son and that Lori knew about it? Letting it end with John being the killer was good enough so why throw in Ryan at the last minute ?? That was overkill as far as I'm concerned and very hard to believe that a 12yr old is that involved in his dad's life. At 10 he knew he was cheating on the mom, he was checking his phone and was able to sneak out of the house and ride his bike miles away not to mention pulling the trigger on a gun ??
I love a good twist ending but it not only has to be logical but it also has to be possible and this "twist" feels like it was thrown in just for the wow factor. We see the priest dumping her bike after knowing he was the last person Erin spoke to and then Dylan breaking into her house to burn all her journals and sneaking out the night she was killed. Both of these were just red herrings to make viewers believe one of them was the killer. Then there's the other "obvious" suspect, Guy Pearce, the new guy in town who happens to bed our lead detective several times.
How many shows have there been where the female detective has no clue that her husband/boyfriend/whatever is really the killer and she had no clue the whole time. What was the point of the other kidnapper/murderer ? Also what was the point of making it look like John was molesting his own son and that Lori knew about it? Letting it end with John being the killer was good enough so why throw in Ryan at the last minute ?? That was overkill as far as I'm concerned and very hard to believe that a 12yr old is that involved in his dad's life. At 10 he knew he was cheating on the mom, he was checking his phone and was able to sneak out of the house and ride his bike miles away not to mention pulling the trigger on a gun ??