We've watched two episodes. My husband is loving but I'm undecided.
This was a great documentary. Fascinating to watch some of the wildlife footage. Amazing photography. Funny animals like jackass penguins in South Africa. And an amazing project in India where a village planted crops specifically for the elephants so they would not raid the village’s rice fields…. And it worked.
I haven't seen it yet, but it's been recommended to me by multiple people. Was it just bad or was it one of those it actually captured what they set out to capture but it wasn't pleasant to see?
I thought Mare was fantastic. The first episode didn’t pull me in completely but by the end of the second I was totally sold. I loved the suspense every week.
I'm actually over that when it comes to British shows. I find they all have the same flavor and if you watched one, you sort of seen them all. There's a lack of emotional investment I find too. Like the stakes don't seem as high because when they kill people off, it doesn't really impact the characters. They just move on even if they spend a scene or a few on a death. I kind of wish police procedurals like that properly dealt with death and grief. That's what I find seriously lacking in those formulaic shows.I have not watched Mare of Easttown for more than 15 minutes because I am over and done with depressing murders and sad female detectives with sad family lives. Am I wrong about that?
That said, from folks who have watched it, I am glad it exists. Because now, instead of going into a long descriptor of my childhood, I can just say "Mare of Easttown". In fact, my sister is a Mar, but we always spelled it without the e. Pronounced as though there is one.
Easttown PA bears no resemblance to Mare's hometown. Southeast Delco, where I lived from preteen years on, appears to be the setting. Where all the white people from Southwest Philly moved. But that's another story.
I should watch also to see if they do nail the accent. I can "code switch" pretty easily, and sometimes unknowingly when I'm angry. It comes in handy.
Yes?
Haven't seen Mare yet...
Loved it but this clearly isn't for you. I do like women who can be curmudgeons if it is coupled with a good mystery so I'm a fan of "Vera." She is often downright rude but somehow I like her anyway.Sorry, poorly worded.
Yes, I am done with (usually British) middle aged women detectives, my life's a mess, my kid's a brat, my friends are jerks, and let me solve this horrible murder with no help from my chauvinist male colleagues. Nope, no more.
So is Mare of Easttown an American version of that? Sounds like it could be.
Then even checking out the accent won't save it.
Only if those other shows have real character growth on the part of the main character. That was probably the main thing I liked about it -- that she confronted her issues and worked on them. Also, the mystery was fairly good and only got preposterous in the last few episodes.
I noticed it on the map as being on the Main Line but figured it was just a grittier part of it. It definitely felt more like Bristol Township where I grew up than my own memories of Main Line.
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Yes! We just got Apple+ to watch Ted Lasso and hope to find time to watch Come From Away tomorrow between skating and tennis. This Broadway version should be special. We saw a touring company performance and loved it!
Thanks for the headsup! I just turned it on. Took my mother and daughter to see this in NYC in 2019. Probably one of my favourite musicals.
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This is hilarious.Yes, I know that the "real" Easttown is in Chesco.
Mare does not live in the real Easttown, but in some fictionalized version set in Delco. In fact, they specified her accent as Delco. (which, for auschlanders, is pretty much southeastern Delaware County. No one refers to Radnor or any of the other nice places in Delaware County as "Delco". Just us low class folk from places like Ridley.
How Kate Winslet nailed the accent TV fans can't stop talking about
The "accent nerd" went to extraordinary lengths to sound like a Pennsylvania native for HBO's "Mare of Easttown." Here's how she did it.
And thank you to everyone for the head's up on Mare. I understand many folks like that kind of show and I may be a minority. But forewarned is forearmed.
Of course, when I was in HS, there was no Blue Route and it really was a different world and far away.
