It is said that as long as HBO shoots, it must be a high-score drama. It is also common to play an episode of Fengshen supernormally, such as the “Mare of Easttown” which will be broadcast in the second quarter of 2021.
Dou received a high score when it first aired. As the plot progressed, the score did not drop but rose instead. He successfully scored a super high score of 9.1.
As a suspenseful short drama with only seven episodes, five episodes of “Mare of Easttown” have been broadcast.
At the end of almost every episode, there is a shocking reversal that made the audience scream. The show scored 8.9 as soon as it was broadcast, and was praised by many fans as a “sacred drama.”
Although the popularity is not as high as that of another suspenseful drama “El inocente”, which has a high sense of existence recently.
“Mare of Easttown” has the meaning of surpassing and surpassing in both the plot and the texture. It is more novel and fancy than the theme. Netflix, HBO’s storytelling level is obviously better.
“Mare of Easttown” sets the location of the story in a seemingly ordinary American town, where there is no bustling metropolis, nor the indifference of meeting strangers.
Innocent and lively children are running on the street, and neighbors are sitting. Drinking coffee and chatting at the door, everything seemed so peaceful and peaceful.
Soon, this intoxicating peace was broken by a strange murder case. Someone found a sixteen-year-old girl in a river of naked corpses, and who was the murderer hiding in the crowd?
It has become the biggest suspicious cloud in this drama, but “Mare of Easttown” is different from the previous suspense dramas, shifting the focus from the process of solving the case to the deep deconstruction of the many seemingly peaceful families in the small town.
Let the audience clearly see the undercurrent surging under the calm river, and the role of the goddess “Ross” Kate Vinslet in the play this time is a policeman named Mel.
On the surface, she is capable and smart at work. Qiang, in private, has to face the pain caused by the disintegration of her family. As she explores the case, the audience soon finds that the town is far from being as peaceful as it seems.
The actor, Evan Peters, plays a writing professor who assists the heroine in solving crimes. He is young, lively and proactive, and it is like a shot of invigorating a flustered and stagnant town. , And it really made waves in Mel’s life.
This seemingly ordinary town can be said to be peaceful and peaceful. It is better to say that everyone in the town has fallen into their own predicament. It is better to live by day by day.
The deceased is a beautiful young girl. There was an alcoholic and violent father, a gangster boyfriend who ran away after teasing, and a child who was born sick and sick.
Her death was a heinous crime, and the people in the small town were complicated and disgusting. human nature.
“Mare of Easttown” is not so much a suspense detective drama, as it is to analyze the human nature behind the whole case with an unconventional entry point and a slow and incredible pace.
The plot is not progressing fast, but the information points are dense and full of worrying social problems, such as the spread of drugs in small towns, girls who don’t know how to protect themselves, teenagers who choose to have children in order to try to “stimulate”, and demons in the cloak of good old men. …
“Anxiety” is the biggest feeling many viewers have after watching the first two episodes of “Mare of Easttown” seriously.
Because it is true enough, the audience will feel the various dilemmas of the characters in the play. Love, and the acting skills of the actors in the play are also very outstanding.
For example, Kate Vinslet manages this policewoman who is suffering from the grief of losing her middle-aged child.
Perhaps the delicate depiction and highlighting of feelings is also the fundamental reason why “Mare of Easttown” was rated as the best drama of a “feminist” suspense film, because this drama has changed the male perspective of the old detective dramas from the perspective of female detectives.
From the perspective, it no longer takes reversal and stimulation as the selling point of the story. Instead, it starts from the plight of women, and then explores every family in the town with a lens that can still watch everything after being hurt.
Then the audience will be surprised to find that women’s starting point is often that they remain tender after being hurt, which leads to being hurt again. Detective Mel has been unable to get out of the psychological shadow because of her son’s drug addiction after committing suicide
. The feeling of exhaustion is not due to the numbness after middle age, but the sense of futility that you can never get out of the predicament and the end times even though you are alive.
In terms of the setting and the storytelling method alone, this “Mare of Easttown” is definitely worth watching. I wonder if you are also interested in front of the screen?
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