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So What’s This Guy’s Whole Deal?

So What’s This Guy’s Whole Deal?

What are we to make of the Mare of Easttown’s sole indulgence: Guy Pearce.

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May 25, 2021
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Spoiler alert: If you’re not currently watching Mare of Easttown — first of all, how dare you, is Kate Winslet sucking on a vape not enough for you? — but intend to watch Mare of Easttown, this post does reveal the internet’s leading suspect for the show’s main murder.
Spinoff idea: Richard of Easttown. Photo: HBO.

Every town — or county, or major municipality, or place with a substantial population of white people — has a Mare: a single mom who works too hard, who looooves her kids and never stops, with gentle hands and the heart of a fighter. (The Mare of Dimes Square is [redacted]. Tom Cruise wants to be the Mare of everything, and people just kind of let him rock, I guess. The Mare of Williamsburg is my neighbor Sam who knows everyone in my building and started a chaotic WhatsApp for us all to “share information”/gossip about the people who let their dogs shit on the rooftop.) All cops are bad, but Mare, God love her, is trying her best to be good. She runs around town with her gre…

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