‘Did Lori do it?’ Julianne Nicholson thought she might be ‘Easttown’s’ killer too
This story contains major spoilers from the series finale of “Mare of Easttown.” ____ “Mare of Easttown” is Kate Winslet’s show. She plays the title character, she’s in a majority of the scenes and, running alongside the hairpin turns of the central murder mystery, it’s Mare’s personal journey we follow. But there is no Mare without Julianne Nicholson’s Lori, and in the series finale it’s ...
This story contains major spoilers from the series finale of “Mare of Easttown.”
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“Mare of Easttown” is Kate Winslet’s show. She plays the title character, she’s in a majority of the scenes and, running alongside the hairpin turns of the central murder mystery, it’s Mare’s personal journey we follow.
But there is no Mare without Julianne Nicholson’s Lori, and in the series finale it’s Nicholson, not Winslet, who does the emotional heavy lifting.
From the beginning, Lori has been Mare’s grounding force, a dispenser of calm and common sense, a parka-ed shoulder to cry on; as Mare spun out, Lori held on to at least one of her feet.
That dynamic wobbled a bit in Episode 6 when it
