![]() ![]() If she turns out to have accidentally slept with the killer she’s been looking for all along, it’s hard to see that progress continuing. Post-suspension, Mare is in counseling and finally communicating with her mother and daughter. Perhaps this is too sinister a possibility. Could his story somehow connect to Erin’s murder or the disappearances of Katie and Missy? He doesn’t not give off “girls locked in my basement” vibes. Can Mare get out of her own way and let something good into her life again? Richard Ryan poses the question.īut! How to justify casting Guy Pearce if that’s all this character is here to do? Pearce attracts so much attention that he must be serving a bigger purpose than Detective Zabel’s romantic rival. The womanizing professor is ostensibly in the show to give Mare insight into her own life - to push her back into the world after her son’s death brought her into stasis. Richard Ryan is a great character to have in Easttown - a place where everybody has always known everybody - because the audience needs an outsider’s point of view. Short/HBO What is Guy Pearce even doing here? That a young mom was killed is already a sad, dark story the possibility that her child’s father was the one to leave DJ motherless is pitch-black. It’s clear from the fact that Erin claimed Dylan as DJ’s father that the dad’s true identity must be something she wanted kept secret - maybe for reasons of age or familial connection (Kenny, Billy, John) or maybe for the role he plays in town (Deacon Mark, a high school teacher). But the big question seems to be less about who the dad is than how this mystery intersects with Erin’s murder. So far DJ and Frank are out, which leaves the rest of the population of Easttown. And this is all just within the universe of people we know about! The reveal that Katie is still alive and had used the same escort website Erin once set up a (supposedly inactive) account on introduces a new possibility: what if Erin’s killer didn’t know her at all? Who is DJ’s father? Mare’s ex-husband, Frank, seems like the only person who can be fairly ruled out now that we know he isn’t DJ’s father, but that still raises the question of why he chose to lie about how well he knew Erin. “The reason I'm sus on Siobhan is that we have no idea where she was after, didn't pick up her phone all day, and all her buddies came forward while she was mia,” wrote one Redditor. Still others have pointed to the violent Brianna or even Mare’s daughter Siobhan. Plus, they’ve yet to be formally interviewed by police. Among the evidence against them that viewers have pointed out: they were out on the night Erin was murdered, likely drunk and with impaired judgement they’re close to Frank and Kenny, which means Erin likely had some semblance of familiarity and trust with them and they seemed suspiciously eager to break the news of Erin’s death to her dad, positioning themselves as supportive figures. Could it have been Dylan, who found out some other way that DJ wasn’t his kid and sought revenge? Could it have been Kenny, who shot Dylan to somehow cover his tracks? What about Deacon Mark? The revelation that he left his previous placement under suspicion for an inappropriate relationship with a young parishioner throws new and vivid light on the fact that he had a close relationship with Erin and was in possession of the bike she rode on the night of her death, but he also feels like too obvious an answer.Ĭousins John and Billy seemed surprised to learn Erin was dead, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t have some motive for wanting her gone. ![]() Who killed Erin?įrustratingly, the list of suspects only seems to grow. Here are all the questions still left to be answered on Mare of Easttown - and the leading theories about them. And in the meantime, even more mysteries have emerged. In the week or so since Erin’s body was discovered, not a single suspect has been struck from the list. Detective Zabel is pursuing Erin’s killer, sure, but with about the same gusto he’s reserved for the romantic pursuit of his new partner. Dylan is processing the world-shattering news that DJ is not his biological son, while Dawn is still hunting for her daughter Katie, whose missing persons case has occupied the local imagination for much longer than Erin’s death. Within the series, no one other than Mare appears particularly focused on solving the crime Erin’s father went vigilante, but everyone else in town is mired in their own personal dramas. We’re four episodes into HBO’s Mare of Easttown, and perhaps more ink has been spilled about the idiosyncrasies of Kate Winslet’s mid-Atlantic accent than who actually killed Erin McMenamin, the young mom whose murder kicked off the show.
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