Back in 2018, writer, executive producer and showrunner Brad Ingelsby (Out of the Furnace, The Way Back) got talking to a police officer friend from back home in Delaware County, PA.
An idea began forming: Why not write about a woman detective from that community?Ingelsby felt that the heart of the story would be how Detective Mare Sheehan grappled with the grief of losing her son, and how she would ultimately process that pain—the whodunnit of it all would merely be a part of the setting.
And yet, when the resulting story, HBO’s limited series Mare of Easttown, came to screens, so skillfully had Ingelsby woven the web of murder mystery, viewers became obsessed with solving the crime.Only 48 hours after reading Ingelsby’s script through her
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