I did like this show and Kate Winslet is simply amazing. Her performance is incredible simply incredible, it's unlike anything I've seen her do before. If this had been a theatrical movie I'd consider her portrayal Oscar worthy. She spoke with a deep voice, I'm not sure if it's a Pennsylvania accent or not, it wasn't British but I wasn't sure where they were located? I suspected it was supposed to be in Canada because the county detective had a heavy Canadian accent. All of his O's had that "oot" sound. Maybe I wasn't paying attention or it sped by so quickly I knew they were in a place called Easttown but I had no idea if it is a real or fictional place. I had look it up after I watched the series to see where it was supposed to have taken place and I was surprised to see it was Pennsylvania. Hardly anyone talked with the same accent which I could understand if it were a big city but in small cities people usually have their own inflections. This was all over the place. I'd say more people sounded Canadian than American.

I did find it strange how so many people who supposedly grew up together spoke so differently but eventually I just let it go. If it hadn't been for Kate's performance I wouldn't have stayed with the show. It's a basic story line that copies the same formula such as the Broadchurch series and other European crime shows. It doesn't reveal much in the first episode and things move along very slowly. 3 or 4 episodes are mostly filler episodes. Frankly this would have been a great 2 hour movie. Compared to most series being made today this was good.

There are some good actors in this show. It's great seeing Jean Smart again, I've always enjoyed her acting. Julianne Nicholson was wonderful. There were a lot of actors in the show that I just did not like. Some of them were supposed to be likeable for example Mare's ex-husband, I think he was supposed to be a likeable character but oh man he made my skin crawl. A lot of characters made my skin crawl. I think this was done deliberately to keep us guessing on who the "bad guy" was. It was a little annoying how there were so many red herrings. At first it was intriguing then it was OMG how many suspects are they going to throw in front of us?

The suspense kept building from one episode to the next but the "bad guy" was revealed it was kind of anti-climatic? I wanted a little more oompf I wanted the writers to be better than they were. Overall I liked it, I loved Kate Winslet. If there's a 2nd season I hope they hire better writers but even if they didn't, I'd watch just to see Kate's performance. She really was phenomenal. She became Mare making me forget she was Kate. I think this was a very brave role for her to take on and I hope she gets some kind of professional recognition for what she did.