After announcing Guy Pearce’s casting in the series earlier this week, HBO has now revealed its upcoming mystery series Mare of Easttown led by Kate Winslet has been set for an April 18th premiere.
Mare Of Easttown stars Winslet as Mare Sheehan, “a small-town Pennsylvania detective whose life crumbles around her as she investigates a local murder.” The series is written, executive produced and showrun by Brad Inglesby with Craig Zobel (The Hunt) directing all seven episodes.
Starring alongside Winslet is Pearce as Richard Ryan, a visiting creative writing professor who wrote a dazzling novel that won the National Book Award 25 years ago, but he has never lived up to his early promise, along with Julianne Nicholson (The Outsider) as Mare’s best friend Lori Ross, Jean Smart (Watchmen) as Mare’s mother Helen, Angourie Rice (Spider-Man: Far From Home) as Mare’s teenaged daughter Siobhan, Evan Peters (American Horror Story) as the county Detective Colin Zabel called in to assist with the investigation, Cailee Spaeny (Devs) as isolated teen Erin McMenamin, David Denman (Outcast) as Mare’s ex-husband Frank, John Douglas Thompson (Let Them All Talk) as Mare’s boss Chief Carter, Patrick Murney (Seven Seconds) as Erin’s father Kenny, James McArdle (Ammonite) as Deacon Mark Burton, Sosie Bacon (Here and Now) as Carrie Layden, Joe Tippett (rise) as Lori’s husband John and Neal Huff (The Wire) as Mare’s cousin Father Dan Hastings.
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