Kate Winslet offers a somewhat encouraging status update on Mare of Easttown season 2. Winslet perfected her distinctive Delco accent to play small town detective Mare Sheehan on HBO’s acclaimed 2021 limited series. And all the hard work indeed paid off as her hard-nosed Mare of Easttown role won Winslet both an Emmy and a Golden Globe.
Now all fans want to know is whether Winslet will ever return for Mare of Easttown season 2. For her part, Winslet has indicated before that she would like to step back into the role again one day. Now in an appearance on Graham Norton to promote the upcoming Avatar 2 (via DigitalSpy), Winslet gave fans a new and somewhat encouraging update on the possibility that Mare of Easttown season 2 could still happen. Check out what she had to say in the space below:
"I have heard the rumors but no decision has been made. It hasn't been ruled out and there's been no discussions at the moment. I also think, 'How would you top that?'"
What Mare of Easttown Season 2 Could Be About
The limited series Mare of Easttown dealt with a self-contained mystery that was thoroughly wrapped up by the end, leaving no obvious business to be continued in a potential season 2. But the character of Mare proved compelling enough that talk immediately began of Winslet returning to tackle a totally new Easttown mystery. A potential season 2 would no doubt revolve around such a mystery, while providing room for further exploration of characters like Mare’s daughter Siobhan (Angourie Rice). The new season could also bring back Mare’s brief love interest Richard Ryan (Guy Pearce), who left Easttown in the Mare of Easttown finale.
Fans no doubt have plenty of ideas about what else Mare of Easttown season 2 could tackle. And Winslet herself has ideas too, telling The Guardian in 2021 that real life events concerning the police would have to be addressed in a second season. Winslet said, “If we were to do a second season, then for sure these atrocities which have existed in the police force here [in the UK] and in America will find their way into the stories we tell.” Such hard-hitting torn-from-the-headlines storytelling would no doubt give Mare of Easttown season 2 a sense of urgency, but it would also shield the show from any “copaganda” allegations that might be leveled against it.
The good news for a potential Mare of Easttown season 2 is that the field is wide open when it comes to storytelling possibilities. And it seems that Winslet remains interested in bringing back the character of Mare, even though she has already signed on for a different HBO project, being announced as the lead of Stephen Frears’ The Palace. Only time will tell if Mare of Easttown season 2 comes to fruition, but it’s certain that Winslet fans would embrace the chance to see her once again take on her Delco accent, tear into a hoagie and tackle another twisty small town murder-mystery.
Source: Graham Norton (via Digital Spy)