Updated On: 04 June, 2021 08:33 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
This is a show about grief, is what I’d been scrolling on social media over the past few weeks since Mare of Easttown premiered on HBO. I stayed away all along. Thinking, no, seriously, who wants grief? Glad I changed my mind, eventually. To report back my two rupees’ worth. Man, this is a show about people, who’ve been through stuff.

Kate Winslet in `Mare of Easttown`
Imagine a one-book wonder, in his 50s — an author with his best/only work behind him. He’s settled, therefore, in a teaching job at a local university. Maybe Suketu Mehta (Maximum City)? But Mehta teaches, if I’m not mistaken, at New York University, which is as posh as it gets.
On this show, with Guy Pearce playing that fictional author Richard Ryan, we’re looking at a sleepy town called Easttown — I googled, it exists. He hooks up one random night, with a woman he meets at a bar, Mare (Kate Winslet), a cop, no less.