Life is a Mare for troubled cop Kate
Sky Atlantic, 9pm OSCAR winner Kate Winslet executive produces and stars in this seven-part crime thriller in her first appearance in a TV drama for 10 years.
She plays small-town Pennsylvania detective Mare Sheehan, investigating a local murder at a time when her own life is crumbling around her. A troubled cop is nothing new, but Winslet sparkles on screen as we gradually find out what is going on in her life.
Sheehan is still considered a hero in the town for winning a basketball championship at her high school decades earlier.
But there’s the case of a missing girl hanging over her career, as well as all the distress in her life. She’s stricken with grief following her son’s suicide, and has a strained relationship with her teenage daughter and her ex who is remarrying.
Then a dead body is discovered in the local creek, which shakes the tight-knit community and puts Mare right at the heart of a fresh tragedy.
Mare’s pain leads her to develop an obsession with cases of missing and murdered girls in Easttown.
With everyone fully aware of her situation and the rumours swirling, how will this affect her dogged pursuit of the killer?
Watch out for a star-studded cast including Guy Pearce, Jean Smart, Evan Peters and Angourie Rice.
It’s all very bleak, but we get to witness an acting masterclass from Winslet which makes this a compelling crime drama not to be missed.