#MARE OF EASTTOWN EPISODE 7 TIME FULL#

On the night of the murder, Erin had threatened to tell Lori everything if John didn’t pay for the baby’s ear treatment, and in the ensuing argument they had fought and he had shot Erin dead.

#MARE OF EASTTOWN EPISODE 7 TIME FULL#

With John in custody, he gives a full confession (without a lawyer, which was a bit of a theme in this series) – he had been sleeping with Erin since the family reunion, and when she eventually got pregnant and refused John’s suggestion of an abortion, he had told her to say the baby was Dylan’s, as the teenagers were dating by that time. For example, did we really believe Dylan burnt Erin’s journals then hunted down Jess and assaulted her at gunpoint in the previous episode purely to ensure his false paternity remained a secret, just to appease his parents? Or that his absence on the night of the murder minus an alibi was just coincidence? Likewise, what was John’s real intention in taking Billy out to the woods to be murdered? To ensure he didn’t ‘confess’ to his involvement? It didn’t really make much sense in retrospect and felt a little frustrating as a result, but the show wasn’t going to rest on it’s laurels as we weren’t done yet. This turn of events didn’t bear too much scrutiny in the early running of the episode – and the show kind of rode roughshod over some of the more salient points this narrative beat exposed.

In a desperate bid to commit suicide, John turned the gun on himself – only for Mare to arrive in the nick of time and arrest him. In the ensuing scuffle between the brothers, both eventually begged the other to kill them – testament to the weight Erin’s death had on them. John was the brother having the affair with Erin, John was her baby’s father, John was the murderer. It wasn’t an unexpected revelation maybe, but it did change the dynamic of the case dramatically.

With brothers John and Billy at the river for an inevitable showdown, Mare was in hot pursuit and off grid – which was a shame, as the Chief had that crucial bit of evidence that flipped this case wide open, and no way to contact her. It felt like it’s own unique world.īut before all the plaudits, action – and rewinding back to last week’s cliffhanger, there was plenty of it. Sure, it wasn’t anything wholly original, or even something that we hadn’t seen before in some regards – it absolutely wore the influences of alumni like True Detective and The Killing very obviously – but there was something special about the way it combined it’s dramatic elements that elevated it well beyond the usual formulaic mediocrity that plagues these kind of shows. And it’ll take something really special to contest that position. And in doing so, Mare of Easttown immediately becomes the one to beat as front-runner for the best show this year. Well, satisfactory for the viewers – not so much the characters, but we’ll get to that.

In 2021, a crime drama actually managed to deliver a satisfactory conclusion to its story.

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