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Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer

ghostinmyshell posted:

I wonder if were going to find out she's been crooked all along and covered up some kind of connection with the missing girl and her son that killed himself.

This would be a real good twist tbh

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Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
There’s a place called “Easttown Township” in Delaware County when I search so it’s probably there

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
I checked and you’re right, but I am also, kind of?

quote:

Because the story is set in a fictionalized version of Easttown Township in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where series creator Brad Ingelsby was born (the show moves the location east to adjacent Delaware County), there were discussions about whether to use the "Delco accent", a version of Philadelphia English common in Delaware County.

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
Big episode 5 spoilers ahead

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer

Looten Plunder posted:

Potential IMDB spoilers he's credited as being in 7 episodes and I don't think he was in episode 1 so maybe that means he pulls through?

Preview spoilers also, considering how she's being thrown quickly back on to the case, surely he survives. There is no way they'd let an already traumatized and unstable cop back on a case after her partner gets killed in front of her

The show is only 7 episodes long

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
I’m very sure brolic is right but that doesn’t explain Billy confessing to John when they’re alone. I wonder what’s going on there.

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
Reminder to check out the British series Happy Valley if you liked this. Very similar premise, it clearly inspired Inglesby, and the episode 5 climax especially owes it a direct debt

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
Finished the finale and thought it was very good. I’m quite lucky with shows like this in that I watch way more for the characters than for the mystery, and this finale certainly massively delivered on the former, even if elements of the latter were lacking.

Honestly I might have liked it more if the killer had just been John and the rest of the episode had just been character stuff, but then Lori’s stuff wouldn’t have been quite as gut-wrenching and that was definitely a highlight. Still, it being the son - and solving the case relying on that old guy randomly deciding to report a crime ages after the fact - was slightly messy and awkward.

Kate Winslet’s facial acting in this episode, holy poo poo

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer

Your Gay Uncle posted:

For some reason I thought that Dawn Bailey had cancer and that she was going to die as soon as Katie got her new house but I guess she was just wearing a hair covering

hahaha I thought that too. Did she not????

also UGH UGH UGH NO

https://twitter.com/thr/status/1399730663629131778?s=21

Please don’t do this HBO just let a miniseries be a loving miniseries

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer

grate deceiver posted:

I feel like there must have been something else going on with Dylan that was not explained at the end: I find it hard to believe he would go to so much trouble to burn the journals and threaten someone with a gun, over just not wanting to give DJ up. Did he even know at that point that he's not the father? And by the end he's ok with just giving him to Laurie. Those three were up to some poo poo, there must have been something else in those journals. Or maybe the screenwriters just forgot.

This is the problem when you go the “everyone’s a suspect!!!!” route really

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
iirc she’s a teenager so while I think she was meant to be over 18 when she died the baby could have been conceived when she was under 18

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
Mom no, dad yes. I don’t know that we still need to use spoiler tags.

Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
Zobel wasn’t the original director, so maybe? It was originally gonna be Gavin O’Connor (Warrior, that movie where Ben Affleck is autistic)

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Escobarbarian
Jun 18, 2004


Grimey Drawer
too old to die young stinks aside from a few amazing scenes but they’re not worth the 13 hours it takes to watch it all imo

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