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Mare of Easttown
SERIES PREMIERE
Sunday, April 18, 10/9c, HBO
YOU DON’T MESS around with Mare. That’s a given if you live in the rural Pennsylvania burg of Easttown, where she’s a no-nonsense, easily exasperated detective sergeant. Take it from the local priest: “I won’t even look you in the eyes—and I’m your cousin.”
Kate Winslet (an Emmy winner for HBO’s ) is a ferocious marvel as , inhabiting this determined antihero with grit, weary wit and a born cynic’s knee-jerk suspicion of anyone who admires her. That short), a one-hit literary wonder who also knows about disappointment. When she’s teamed with a young hotshot county detective (’s Evan Peters) who begins to see through her prickly facade, she sets him straight.
