![]() ![]() The episode six cliff-hanger offered up a crucial piece of evidence from Erin’s friend Jess, who’d salvaged a crucial photograph from Erin’s destroyed diaries. After Billy discovers a gun at the bottom of John’s tackle box, he’s wary of his brother, sensing a threat. Later that same episode, after John tells him that he was seen by their father covered in blood on the night of Erin’s murder, Billy suddenly becomes tractable, confessing to the crime and agreeing to go fishing with John one last time. Now you clean it up.” He makes digs about John never being held accountable for his mistakes and refuses to help him move. You couldn’t keep your dick in your pants. When John first comes to stay with him and their father, Billy is hostile and tells his brother that he only has himself to blame. In episode six, John’s brother Billy goes through a strange transition, from obstinate and angry to distraught and subdued. Someone needs to for once in his goddamn life.” But what does he know? “I’m holding him accountable, Pop. That kid knows much more than he’s letting on. When he’s asked to leave the room, Ryan seems alert to the significance of the conversation. In episode six, after Mare has discovered that Billy bought Erin her heart-shaped pendant engraved with the date of the family reunion, Mare shows up at the Ross house looking for Billy. Mare of Easttown: What If No One Killed Erin McMenamin? By Alec Bojalad That was enough for Lori to believe that John was seeing “Sandra” – a character we’ve never met – and to throw John out of the family home. When Lori asked him if he’d seen his dad cheating, and if it was with the same woman as before (this isn’t John’s first cheating rodeo), Ryan nodded through his tears but didn’t say anything. He’s a trustworthy kid, in short, and would likely make a reliable witness. “Is he doing it again? Is your dad doing it again?”īefore the cafeteria outburst, Ryan was portrayed as studious and sensible, often seen doing his homework, in episode one even on a Friday night. After seeing her husband John pressure Ryan into keeping a secret the night before, Lori pieced together that Ryan had seen his dad cheating on her. When his mother Lori came to collect him from school, Ryan broke down in tears. That’s when he exploded in the school cafeteria and attacked the bully who’d been humiliating his sister Moira, who has Down Syndrome. Cameron Mann’s character Ryan, the son of Lori and John Ross, was a background presence until the series’ pivotal fifth episode. ![]() That appears to be Mare of Easttown’s approach. Alternatively, you could just make the key witness a person nobody would think to interrogate until the last moment, i.e. ![]() Another fix is to make the witness a criminal/adulterer/relapsing addict who stays quiet about what they know because it would also incriminate them. The coma trick – whereby a witness spends most of the series lying unresponsive in a hospital bed and then wakes up just in time to provide the penultimate episode cliff-hanger – is tried and tested. Zagar and Yaches, who co-founded Public Record, are repped by WME and Granderson Des Rochers.Warning: contains spoilers for Mare of Easttown episodes 1-6.Ĭrime mystery dramas have various mechanisms for holding back essential witness information until a final episode. Ruffalo is with Lighthouse Management & Media, UTA, Relevant and Keith Klevan. Ingelsby is repped by LBI, CAA, McKuin Frankel and ID. ![]() Nicole Jordan-Webber and Public Record’s Jeremy Yaches are co-EPs. Ingelsby will executive produce with Wiip’s Paul Lee and Mark Roybal, Zagar and Ruffalo. The convergence of these talents is so exciting, and we cannot wait to share this story with the world.” We are also honored to collaborate with Jeremiah, an unparalleled director whose deep understanding of visual storytelling will only elevate this project to new heights. “When the opportunity arose to partner with Mark on another series, we all jumped at the chance to witness him once again breathe great humanity into a new role. Brad’s boundless creativity and unrivaled ability to captivate audiences is nothing short of inspiring, and we cannot be more excited to embark on another journey together,” said Francesca Orsi, executive vp programming and head of HBO drama series and films. “We are absolutely thrilled to once again join forces with Brad Ingelsby, the brilliant auteur behind Mare of Easttown. Jeremiah Zagar ( We the Animals, Netflix’s Hustle) will direct. Independent studio Wiip, which was behind Mare of Easttown, will produce the new series. ![]()
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