Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the season finale of “Mare of Easttown.”“Mare of Easttown” has, from its first moments, been something special even in a very crowded lane.
The prestige-actress-led murder mystery on HBO has, in recent years, seen outings that have achieved varying degrees of creative success, among them “Big Little Lies,” “Sharp Objects,” and “The Undoing.” One element that differentiated “Mare,” finally, was that it really stuck the landing, delivering an ending both of narrative wholeness and of real emotional power.
But what had set this series apart from the beginning was its deep and abiding sense of setting, in small ways and in large.
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