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Be warned: Major spoilers forIllusions,episode five ofMare of Easttown, lie ahead.
Most TV series tell you what theyre all about with their first episode.
But whatMare of Easttowngiveth,Mare of Easttowntaketh away.
Requiescat in peace, Detective Colin Zabel.
Mare will almost certainly never look at a cup of convenience-store coffee without misting up a bit.
The odds, in other words, have shiftedsince last week.
(But its not.)
But, hey, cant rule em out.
And lets go ahead and lump DJ Anne Harris in with these unlikely suspects.
She seems only to want the best for Siobhan.
(Even if Helens indiscretion just makes Mare laugh.)
Maybe his guilt-ridden speech was designed to throw the investigation off his scent.
But it probably does.
Brianna (Mackenzie Lansing): 300 to 1Brianna, too, seems like an increasingly marginal suspect.
(She still sucks, however.)
The gut just says no.
But it looks like the Rosses have skeletons in their collective closet.
Either way, somethings as fishy as a day-old tuna-salad hoagie from Wawa.
Atbesthes a man who cheats on his wife and draws his son into his web of lies.
At the worst… hes a murderer?
Faye seems unhappy based on what she knows, but what exactly is that?
And did she play a role as well?
Someone We Havent Met (?
Assuming the kidnapper, however vile, is not Erins killer, the show probably wont play it twice.
(Butcanhe go to the police, or was all that a confession?
We thought we knew all there was to know about Erins anime-loving best friend.
Did Erin have any true friends, or just a bunch of backstabbers?
Her tragic story just gets sadder with each new revelation.
(Also, why point Mare toward Frank?
Whats to be gained?)
(Again, Dylan is anextremelybad guy.)
And does he have secrets beyond those contained in the diaries he, Jess, and Sean burn together?
Maybe something related to the photo Jess pockets?
Everythings coming up Dylan right now.
But could it really be him?
It just seems too obvious.
Still, HBOs recent pastincludes a mysteryin which the most obvious suspect turned out to be the guilty party.
WillMare of Easttownalso end with an anticlimactic helicopter chase?
Whats up with Billy?
But is there someone even more extraneous hanging around?
Maybe he was just writing a second novel at last.
As alibis go, that would stand up as well as almost anyone elses.
