Overall: The acting in Mare of Easttown is deniably high. The story leaves room for depth and emotion and even the lesser characters for the story plays they role and have their space and moments. The first 5 episodes are the best, the tension is well built, and the story suits the "small town everybody knows everybody" placement in Easttown - Mares Hotel California.

But even though the story is good and carries the scenes all the way to ending with several narratives that needs to solved and released - and you wont get it all until the very end - the storyline has some disturbances.

No spoilers:

Some of the characters have stories that are not followed up upon. Why did they say that? Did he/she go to prison or was released? Why did he/she lie in the first place?

Especially at the end it feels like characters are suddenly telling out of context stories to Mare...well, just because the writers didn't know how to tie the knot or did have money for episode 8 - or another episode 6 or 7, so they could follow through on all the leads.

That said. The plot is good, the personal stories are good. This is on the same level as True Detective Season 1. Excellent, thrilling, breathtaking, gut hitting, heart beating good story and criminal thriller.