Lori goes through a full range of emotion, from doing absolutely everything she can to protect her son, to being angry at her best friend for doing her job and arresting her son. The heartache and rage that Nicholson brought to the last episode will surely get her an Emmy nomination later this year.

Her performance was truly something else, as well as Julianne Nicholson’s, who played Mare’s best friend Lori. After six weeks of twists, turns, suspects, revelations and shocks, Kate Winslet ’s stunning detective drama Mare of Easttown is heading for a thrilling finale. On Sunday night at 10 pm ET, when HBO’s highly anticipated Mare. Winslet made Mare a fully realized character who actually comes out of the series a better person. By Matt Webb Mitovich / May 30 2021, 7:31 PM PDT. “Mare of Easttown” ended up being about grief, mourning, mental health, motherhood, community and so much more. What became evident throughout the series, and especially in the last episode, is that this show was so much more than a murder mystery. Mares (Kate Winslet) world is turned upside down on the Mare of Easttown season finale as she finally pieces together the final components of the season-long mystery thats sure to leave fans.

There were tons of red herrings along the way when you look back at the series, but it was still a shocking turn nonetheless. The twist that it was Ryan, John and Lori’s son, who ended up killing Erin, was something that many viewers did not see coming.

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