It hurt watching the hope Dawn held onto drain away into sorrow. I’ll say it, Mare of Easttown, this was a low blow. When the caller attacks Dawn it’s revealed to be Beth’s addict brother, Freddy (Dominique Johnson), looking to cash in on Dawn’s grief to collect some money. Instead, she turns some posters into bundles and brings them to the location they say over the phone.īad karma is just being asked for by anyone who would attempt to con a grieving mother into giving them money. I love that her common sense did keep her from stealing the money from her place of work. What if she does bring the money? It offers the chance that she could be reunited and the horrible nightmare she’s been living for a year could end.Īgainst her better judgment, she accepts the caller’s requests. What if she refuses to bring the money? They could kill Katie. To Dawn, what if this caller is telling the truth and he does have Katie? What if she brings the police in on this situation? The caller could run and Katie could never be found. Miller) out of going after Mare right there in the gas station back in Episode 2 when Mare had suspected his daughter, Brianna, to also be involved in Erin’s death. It was the same instinct that led Kenny McMenamin (Patrick Murney) to put Dylan (Jack Mulhern) in the hospital when he believed Dylan caused Erin’s murder. The hazy uncertainty that she’s experiencing is due to the fact that her parental instincts to find her child are telling her to do whatever it takes. It raises them for Beth (Chinasa Ogbuagu) who insists that she informs Mare. Katie’s disappearance occurred a year ago so the fact that someone has waited this long to request a ransom should raise eyebrows. In Episode 4, Dawn finds herself at the mercy’s end of some phone calls regarding her missing daughter. She’s allowing Katie’s disappearance to rule her life, which can cause people to take advantage of her. She continues to plead to the police to search. She prints out fresh posters to post wherever she goes. She has fought to keep that hope burning by keeping Katie on everyone’s mind. Who killed Erin (Cailee Spaeny), and what happened to Katie (Caitlin Houlahan)?įrom the very beginning of the series, Dawn Bailey (Enid Graham) has been holding out hope that Katie is still out there alive. Episode 4 refocused our attention on the major cases that have been the driving force for Mare (Kate Winslet), Detective Zabel (Evan Peters), and the rest of Easttown, Pennsylvania. In fact, he offers a theory that both Peters’s Zabel and Guy Pearce’s Richard may have ulterior motives.The following contains spoilers for Mare of Easttown Episode 4, “Poor Sisyphus”Īs the song says, “We’re halfway there!” That’s right, Mare of Easttown has reached its halfway point. In this week’s episode of Vanity Fair’s podcast Still Watching: Mare of Easttown, Richard Lawson is dubious about Zabel’s motivations. Peters tells Vanity Fair that accessing Zabel’s admiration for Mare was pretty easy based on his professional esteem for Winslet. Zabel made good on last week’s whiskey-soaked flirtatious overture by asking Mare out on a date. But those who guessed that the title of last week’s episode, “Enter Number Two,” was a reference to the Gordon Lightfoot song “ If You Could Read My Mind” and predicted Zabel was entering the picture as love interest number two for Mare, are likely feeling pretty smug right now. This week Detective Colin Zabel took a back seat as other aspects of the case flooded in. Last week on Mare of Easttown, Evan Peters stole the show with his emotional, drunken meltdown in front of Kate Winslet’s Mare. This article includes frank discussion of the latest episode of Mare of Easttown: “Poor Sisyphus.” If you’re not caught up, now is the time to leave.
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