Considering Mare of Easttown — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #97

Inso­far as some­thing is a TV hit at all these days, the small-town Penn­syl­va­nia mur­der mys­tery star­ring Kate Winslet seems to qual­i­fy, but what dis­tin­guish­es it from the many many oth­er crime dra­mas on TV? Your Pret­ty Much Pop hosts Mark Lin­sen­may­er, Eri­ca Spyres, and Bri­an Hirt dis­cuss the plot struc­ture, cast­ing, and oth­er cre­ative choic­es and try to fig­ure out how the show relates to Broad­church, The Undo­ing, etc. Should there be a sea­son two?

Here are a few of the arti­cles that fed the dis­cus­sion:

• “‘Mare of East­town’ Was Not a Show About Mur­der” by Ali­son Her­man
• “Does It Take a Mur­der to Make an HBO Show About Women a Hit?” by Anna Nord­berg
• “‘Mare of East­town’ End­ed with a Shock­ing Twist. But That’s Not the Only Rea­son the Show Was a Hit.” by Emi­ly Yahr
• “Kate Winslet Shows There’s More to Mid­dle Age Than a Sag­gy Bel­ly” by Gaby Hinsliff
• “Why Most Actors Won’t Even Attempt a Philadel­phia Accent” by Sam Adams
• “Mare of East­town Sea­son 2 Could Hap­pen — but It Should­n’t” by Marc McLaren
• “ ‘Mur­dur Dur­dur’: Inside SNL’s Killer Mare of East­town Par­o­dy” by Hillary Busis

Hear more of this pod­cast at prettymuchpop.com. This episode includes bonus dis­cus­sion that you can access by sup­port­ing the pod­cast at patreon.com/prettymuchpop. This pod­cast is part of the Par­tial­ly Exam­ined Life pod­cast net­work.

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