Anyone watching Mare of Easttown?

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Anonymous wrote:I also found Guy Pierce to be extremely unattractive - that long gray hair - shudder.

He is pretty much always gross. Particularly here though--the long, thin, gray hair was especially gross.

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This show did follow the format of many of the British shows to a T--for whatever reason, I find almost any British crime show to be much better than any American one. Broadchurch was my favorite of all time--was miles better than this show.

also see Scott & Bailey

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The final scene brought me to tears - Mare going up to the attic and the shot of the ladder. Beautifully done.

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Anonymous wrote:I am late to the party, but I just watched it and loved it. Then I came here and read every page, and I cannot believe that among all the "that was unrealistic" complaints, no one mentioned Siobhan driving off to Berkeley alone in her Prius.

Ok, I'm REALLY late to the party having just finished last night, and I came here to say exactly that!! A freshman, driving by herself across the country to a college she's never seen, to move in all by herself. Riiiiiiight. Not to mention, there was never any discussion at all about the cost of sending her to Berkeley. SO unrealistic. That was the one really false note in the whole show.

The cost, and the fact that she applied to a prestigious college late in the spring, just called up a professor, and was able to get in. Come on! She was not that extraordinary that she could bypass regular admissions like that.

And they don't mail acceptances like that anymore. Your kid has a portal, and the kid checks the portal for updates. When there is a decision, some colleges email your kid telling them to to check their portal, and other colleges don't, and the kid has to just keep checking every day. A snail mail letter comes along much later.

Also, Berkeley being a public school and all...I just don't see a kid talking to a professor and then getting in like that. Maybe no one on this crew has a college-age kid, OR, maybe everyone on this crew has an inside track and so they don't realize how unrealistic this whole storyline was.

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Anonymous wrote:I am late to the party, but I just watched it and loved it. Then I came here and read every page, and I cannot believe that among all the "that was unrealistic" complaints, no one mentioned Siobhan driving off to Berkeley alone in her Prius.

Ok, I'm REALLY late to the party having just finished last night, and I came here to say exactly that!! A freshman, driving by herself across the country to a college she's never seen, to move in all by herself. Riiiiiiight. Not to mention, there was never any discussion at all about the cost of sending her to Berkeley. SO unrealistic. That was the one really false note in the whole show.

The cost, and the fact that she applied to a prestigious college late in the spring, just called up a professor, and was able to get in. Come on! She was not that extraordinary that she could bypass regular admissions like that.

And they don't mail acceptances like that anymore. Your kid has a portal, and the kid checks the portal for updates. When there is a decision, some colleges email your kid telling them to to check their portal, and other colleges don't, and the kid has to just keep checking every day. A snail mail letter comes along much later.

Also, Berkeley being a public school and all...I just don't see a kid talking to a professor and then getting in like that. Maybe no one on this crew has a college-age kid, OR, maybe everyone on this crew has an inside track and so they don't realize how unrealistic this whole storyline was.

Yep. And the whole family waving goodbye as she pulled away BY HERSELF in her Prius was just... so stupid. I think you're right that no one on the crew had a college-aged kid, but how clueless!

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Anonymous wrote:I am late to the party, but I just watched it and loved it. Then I came here and read every page, and I cannot believe that among all the "that was unrealistic" complaints, no one mentioned Siobhan driving off to Berkeley alone in her Prius.

Ok, I'm REALLY late to the party having just finished last night, and I came here to say exactly that!! A freshman, driving by herself across the country to a college she's never seen, to move in all by herself. Riiiiiiight. Not to mention, there was never any discussion at all about the cost of sending her to Berkeley. SO unrealistic. That was the one really false note in the whole show.

The cost, and the fact that she applied to a prestigious college late in the spring, just called up a professor, and was able to get in. Come on! She was not that extraordinary that she could bypass regular admissions like that.

And they don't mail acceptances like that anymore. Your kid has a portal, and the kid checks the portal for updates. When there is a decision, some colleges email your kid telling them to to check their portal, and other colleges don't, and the kid has to just keep checking every day. A snail mail letter comes along much later.

Also, Berkeley being a public school and all...I just don't see a kid talking to a professor and then getting in like that. Maybe no one on this crew has a college-age kid, OR, maybe everyone on this crew has an inside track and so they don't realize how unrealistic this whole storyline was.

Yep. And the whole family waving goodbye as she pulled away BY HERSELF in her Prius was just... so stupid. I think you're right that no one on the crew had a college-aged kid, but how clueless!

You ladies are so fixated.

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Yep. And the whole family waving goodbye as she pulled away BY HERSELF in her Prius was just... so stupid. I think you're right that no one on the crew had a college-aged kid, but how clueless!

You ladies are so fixated.

We're on a nearly 40-page thread about a TV show, so yeah.

But this is such an obvious thing --cross-country trip alone! Easttown is not a Prius-y place! the cost of the drive (hotels, gas, etc) is more than the cost of a flight! parking in Berkeley! every aspect of getting admitted to and attending Berkeley OOS! -- how did no one say, "Uh, maybe she applies before the deadline, and they take her to the airport, at least?"

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Ok so I just binged this in two days and one thing I can’t get over. Mare and her partner going to the blue van house when mare wasn’t supposed to be working. The partner probably would have lived if she had her gun and was not suspended. Yet he died and she gets praised and starts back the next day. Someone died bc she insisted to be apart of it when she could have sent someone else. Right?

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Yep. And the whole family waving goodbye as she pulled away BY HERSELF in her Prius was just... so stupid. I think you're right that no one on the crew had a college-aged kid, but how clueless!

You ladies are so fixated.

We're on a nearly 40-page thread about a TV show, so yeah.

But this is such an obvious thing --cross-country trip alone! Easttown is not a Prius-y place! the cost of the drive (hotels, gas, etc) is more than the cost of a flight! parking in Berkeley! every aspect of getting admitted to and attending Berkeley OOS! -- how did no one say, "Uh, maybe she applies before the deadline, and they take her to the airport, at least?"

What a boring thing to focus on. So mundane.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok so I just binged this in two days and one thing I can’t get over. Mare and her partner going to the blue van house when mare wasn’t supposed to be working. The partner probably would have lived if she had her gun and was not suspended. Yet he died and she gets praised and starts back the next day. Someone died bc she insisted to be apart of it when she could have sent someone else. Right?

Its called having a highly contrived scenario.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok so I just binged this in two days and one thing I can’t get over. Mare and her partner going to the blue van house when mare wasn’t supposed to be working. The partner probably would have lived if she had her gun and was not suspended. Yet he died and she gets praised and starts back the next day. Someone died bc she insisted to be apart of it when she could have sent someone else. Right?

Its called having a highly contrived scenario.

I know it’s fiction and I could get over all the other details, but this one was such a pivotal moment in the series! I was waiting for her to get transferred or something!

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Anonymous wrote:Ok so I just binged this in two days and one thing I can’t get over. Mare and her partner going to the blue van house when mare wasn’t supposed to be working. The partner probably would have lived if she had her gun and was not suspended. Yet he died and she gets praised and starts back the next day. Someone died bc she insisted to be apart of it when she could have sent someone else. Right?

Its called having a highly contrived scenario.

I know it’s fiction and I could get over all the other details, but this one was such a pivotal moment in the series! I was waiting for her to get transferred or something!

There was a huge amount of contrived crap in this show. It was basically a soap and there were red herrings, loose ends, BS scenes that later were contradicted.

Doesn't mean it wasn't a hugely enjoyable show though. I was willing to overlook all these things.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok so I just binged this in two days and one thing I can’t get over. Mare and her partner going to the blue van house when mare wasn’t supposed to be working. The partner probably would have lived if she had her gun and was not suspended. Yet he died and she gets praised and starts back the next day. Someone died bc she insisted to be apart of it when she could have sent someone else. Right?

His mother said as much to her when she went to her home to offer condolences and she slapped Mare across the face. It was acknowledged.