Happy with the resounding success of its slow-burn murder mystery show, ‘Mare Of Easttown’, HBO has grabbed its creator Brad Ingelsby for a three-year overall deal with the content giant. Ingelsby will be tasked with the job of developing more projects for HBO. HBO‘s move comes after Mare Of Easttown garnered rave reviews and huge appreciation from all quarters, audiences and critics alike.
Mare Of Easttown has raked in record viewing numbers for all its seven episodes. The first episode garnered 3 million viewers across platforms, while the finale episode especially broke all records – it became the most-watched episode ever on HBO Max, for the first 24 hours of streaming. HBO Max even crashed as soon as Mare Of Easttown Episode 7 – the finale episode – began streaming. HBO Max servers apparently could not cope with the rush to watch the finale episode.
Mare Of Easttown is an atmospheric suspense mystery. A young girl is found brutally murdered in the small town of Easttown. It falls on local detective Mare Sheehan (Kate Winslet) to get to the bottom of the murder. Mare’s own world seems to be falling apart, as she deals with a divorce and grief over her dead son who took his own life. Adding to her troubles is the niggling one-year-old case of the disappearance of another young girl, which Mare hasn’t been able to solve yet. The series is full of twists and turns, and the twist in the finale episode is simply stunning.
Brad Ingelsby has earlier written the screenplays for Out Of The Furnace, American Woman, Run All Night and The Way Back. Mare Of Easttown is his first screenplay for a TV series. HBO is keenly interested in a second season for Mare Of Easttown, though there are no concrete plans on the horizon.