Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVIn many ways, HBO’s “Mare of Easttown” told two stories: one was a gripping, small-town murder mystery and the other was an exploration of grief and guilt for a mother, the titular Mare (played by Kate Winslet), who lost her son too young.
Both pieces of the overall limited series were deeply emotional but, as director Craig Zobel puts it, “humanistic,” and therefore the show’s visual complexity came from the crew and actors challenging themselves.A favorite example he and DP Ben Richardson reach for is when Mare is in therapy.
What could be a simple shot-reverse-shot sequence between Mare and her doctor (Eisa Davis) is shaken up by multiple (at one point up to six) lighting changes. “We didn’t.
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