'Mare Of Easttown': Your Finale Questions, Answered

This is a discussion of the final episode of this season of Mare of Easttown. You absolutely should not read it if you don't want to know what happened, as that's what it's about.

There was so much speculation about the mysteries of HBO's Mare of Easttown that it seemed like no matter what the ending was, it would be something that someone guessed at some point. There were only so many characters, and it (fortunately) didn't seem like the kind of show that would pull in a random new murderer at the end, just for the sake of making sure none of the online guesses had been right.

Let's get right to it and talk about some questions that were answered in the Mare finale.

Okay, so who killed Erin McMenamin?

Indeed, the central mystery of the series — who killed Erin McMenamin? — had an answer that matched a theory that had been laid out with impressive accuracy in some circles, even if some of them had then (understandably) dismissed it.

For in