"Mare of Easttown' presents, in some regards, a strong creative contribution on the part of Kate Winslet. On screen she is cast as a lead story protagonist: a senior, Pennsylvania police detective. Specifically, to what degree an executive producer impacts the production, when one amongst 12, is likely questionable, however. This production is heavily character driven, which says a lot about of the sophistication and quality of the writing, cast, and directorial framing of this series.

Kate Winslet, the familiar face and person, takes a backseat to the very human portrayal of a struggling law enforcement officer, coping with the rigors and anxieties of on-going and escalating incidents of missing, believed murdered or abducted, teenage girls. Domestically, Kate's character faces a legacy of family social upheaval and instability.

Operatively, Mare's father took his own life during mid-childhood years. She has also lost a son, who also took his own life, both likely unable to cope with, what is suggested as, inherited mental conditions of ill-health. Kate's character, Mare, is integral to a number of core community social structures which interconnect her extended family. Her brother is the local Catholic priest.

This dramatization is very much about the legacies of family and community. Characters reflect people attempting to cope with unfulfilled and unrelenting existential challenges. Some characters succeed, others fail, subjected to the daily pressures of their lives, their family social, psychological and biological legacies. Overall, influentially, is the encroaching North American culturally disconnected ethos of gender bias, intimate partner violence and social stigmatisation, discrimination and prejudice reflecting a deep social disparity. Looking closely at people's lives, the observer is cast as witness to a continuum of social and psychological dysfunction, reflecting the often deeply compromised wellbeing of many of this community's citizenry. Human beings are cast as entirely imperfect actors adrift in their own lives. Something, a premsie, which, perhaps many people can relate to.

This dramatization is not likely to appeal to viewers looking to engage is shallow entertainment and peripheral interaction with the story's characters. Peoples' faults are revealed; good people do bad things, and bad things happen to good people. Seemingly, some individuals seek to cope with daily life by turning to predating upon the weak and the vulnerable - young adolescent women.

The marvel of this production is its smooth and easy realism. Especially, this is true in how honest and banal much of character interaction is in telling a much deeper and human story of those involved. Courageously, this production weaves the frail humanity of it's characters across the screen, eliciting a powerfully compelling storyline and portrayal in an elegantly depicted, multi-dimensional tale of a community victimised by criminal predation and human weakness.