Mare of Easttown (HBO Max) TV Show • Page 10

Mare move to Carnegie, PA for season 2

 

Mare brings back the electric factory

 

(Avoiding reading any of this thread.)

On episode 4, I am only hate watching now. This is so fucking bad. The music, the acting, the writing, this is so stupid …

 

Hate watching is actually what’s stupid.

 

How has this not been posted in here?

 

I thought this was great. Short and sweet, just a good amount of twists. Thought the acting is what brought it all together. The story may have gotten a bit all over the place in the middle, but I thought the characters is what brought it all together.

I definitely cared about all the characters at the end.

Overall super entertaining

 

Oh and absolutely no to season 2

 

I guess I like this show enough but Jason is kinda right about the writing. Some real *yikes* moments in the two episodes I’ve watched so far.

 

I can't really understand knocking the acting, though. I can see having issues with the writing, even though I personally really enjoyed the whole show a lot, but the acting is phenomenal almost across the board. Kate Winslet, Jean Smart, Evan Peters, epic mustache guy, the Rolling Rock bottles - they all knock it out of the park.

 

The accents really become distracting during dramatic scenes or when a person is shaky on them in general. Probably because I’m local but it took me out of it a few times

 

Don’t hassle him, he’s local!

 

I really had trouble hearing the accent that everyone was talking about at first, except on a few words, the most glaring one being "water" pronounced almost like "woodher". I didn't find the accents distracting at all, but I was also completely unfamiliar with the Delco accent before all the talk surrounding this show and Kate Winslet attempting it. But I do know how distracting a bad Boston accent can be so I understand what people are saying.

 

I barely noticed at points tbh

 

Yeah the “accent” was an absolute nonfactor for me and the acting, for the most part, was great.

 

I didnt find the accents glaring at all. Honestly, didn't notice it. And even if I did or they were there....so what?

I guess being from north east I'm used to it?

 

love to hear about how poor writing is from a dude that hypes up the teen titans live action show lol

 

So we finished this in 4 days... what the heck is that side story with Dylan, the girl, and the other guy who said it's their secret now and they threaten her/chase her for... no real reason when it comes to the final story? And then Dylan somehow has this insanely nice Bronco (likely the nicest car in town) but can't afford surgery?

 

wait what

a ford bronco is not the nicest car we’ve seen in this show lol. of all the takes

 

The Jaguar that Mare's BF/whatever was nice, but old. I guess Mare's Suburban was nice... but that was one pretty nicely restored Bronco.

 

HBO's Mare Of Easttown Has A Huge Car-Casting Fail

 

My friend had a bronco like that in high school that his grandpa gave to him.

 

For the Dylan friend, burning of diaries thing aren't there a few possibilities...

1) wanted to keep identity of real father a secret
2) he knew he was a main suspect so he wanted to burn diaries that would make him look bad

 

Pretty sure it was mentioned they destroyed the diaries so Dylan's parents could keep DJ

 

I do think the Dylan stuff was a bit illogical. If I'm understanding right, the following is the sequence of events there:

-Jess knows that Dylan isn't the dad, but doesn't know who it is
-Jess points a finger at Roy From the Office
-Dylan finds out in the hospital he isn't the dad
-Jess directs Mare to look for the diaries in the wrong place
-Dylan and Jess burn the diaries so that information on the real father will presumably be destroyed, which he thinks means his parents can keep DJ. While burning them, Jess finds the picture (for the first time?) that shows John is likely the father
-Dylan threatens Jess to keep quiet

I mean, any way I look at it something doesn't quite add up. If it's already legal knowledge that Dylan's not the real father, the plan to destroy the info about who is is pointless. (And there's no reason for Dylan or Jess to know the diaries will say who is.) If Jess truly doesn't know John is the father prior to stealing the picture in the burning scene, the lack of drama around the photo discovery is hard to believe. If she does, casting blame on Roy From the Office is weird without motive. And Dylan threatening Jess never really makes sense because his plan to have his parents keep the baby never really made sense in the first place.

It didn't ruin the show for me or anything, but it's the biggest plot hole in the whole thing. I get it's helpful in casting suspicion that Dylan is the killer, but the scene with his girlfriend pointing out that he wasn't home in the middle of that night does so about a thousand times more effectively and believably.

 

Still can't believe the Chorus Dot FM posters did the music for this show