Given all of the above, it wouldn't be surprising if season two was given the thumbs up. It should also be noted that every episode drew in more viewers than the last, which had only been achieved by Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant drama The Undoing prior to that. Three million viewers tuned in that Sunday evening (via Deadline) to discover who had murdered Erin and why, with a further four million viewers watching over the weekend on streaming service HBO Max. The mystery photograph, however, obviously suggests another scenario.Kate Winslet's gritty HBO crime drama Mare of Easttown quickly gripped the world when it launched in April 2021, and ever since fans have been begging for more.ĭespite it being marketed as a limited series (meaning a 'one and done' season format), that hasn't deterred people from wanting more of the grim Philadelphia suburb.īy the time the show ended on May 30, WarnerMedia proudly announced the finale was the most-watched episode of any HBO or HBO Max series during its first 24 hours. Erin, in need of cash to pay for her son’s ear operation, had apparently threatened to tell people about him having impregnated his underage first-cousin-once-removed, so Billy shot her to keep her quiet. By that point, Mare, Lori and the Chief believed that Billy was both Erin’s killer and the father of her baby. The episode six cliff-hanger offered up a crucial piece of evidence from Erin’s friend Jess, who’d salvaged a crucial photograph from Erin’s destroyed diaries. After Billy discovers a gun at the bottom of John’s tackle box, he’s wary of his brother, sensing a threat. Later that same episode, after John tells him that he was seen by their father covered in blood on the night of Erin’s murder, Billy suddenly becomes tractable, confessing to the crime and agreeing to go fishing with John one last time. Now you clean it up.” He makes digs about John never being held accountable for his mistakes and refuses to help him move. You couldn’t keep your dick in your pants. When John first comes to stay with him and their father, Billy is hostile and tells his brother that he only has himself to blame. In episode six, John’s brother Billy goes through a strange transition, from obstinate and angry to distraught and subdued. Someone needs to for once in his goddamn life.” But what does he know? “I’m holding him accountable, Pop. That kid knows much more than he’s letting on. When he’s asked to leave the room, Ryan seems alert to the significance of the conversation. In episode six, after Mare has discovered that Billy bought Erin her heart-shaped pendant engraved with the date of the family reunion, Mare shows up at the Ross house looking for Billy. Mare of Easttown: What If No One Killed Erin McMenamin? By Alec Bojalad That was enough for Lori to believe that John was seeing “Sandra” – a character we’ve never met – and to throw John out of the family home. When Lori asked him if he’d seen his dad cheating, and if it was with the same woman as before (this isn’t John’s first cheating rodeo), Ryan nodded through his tears but didn’t say anything. He’s a trustworthy kid, in short, and would likely make a reliable witness. “Is he doing it again? Is your dad doing it again?”īefore the cafeteria outburst, Ryan was portrayed as studious and sensible, often seen doing his homework, in episode one even on a Friday night. After seeing her husband John pressure Ryan into keeping a secret the night before, Lori pieced together that Ryan had seen his dad cheating on her. When his mother Lori came to collect him from school, Ryan broke down in tears. That’s when he exploded in the school cafeteria and attacked the bully who’d been humiliating his sister Moira, who has Down Syndrome. Cameron Mann’s character Ryan, the son of Lori and John Ross, was a background presence until the series’ pivotal fifth episode. That appears to be Mare of Easttown’s approach. Alternatively, you could just make the key witness a person nobody would think to interrogate until the last moment, i.e. Another fix is to make the witness a criminal/adulterer/relapsing addict who stays quiet about what they know because it would also incriminate them. The coma trick – whereby a witness spends most of the series lying unresponsive in a hospital bed and then wakes up just in time to provide the penultimate episode cliff-hanger – is tried and tested. Warning: contains spoilers for Mare of Easttown episodes 1-6.Ĭrime mystery dramas have various mechanisms for holding back essential witness information until a final episode.
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