Still Watching: Mare of Easttown - "Miss Lady Hawk Herself"
Still Watching
Vanity Fair
4.2 β’ 1.6K Ratings
ποΈ 19 April 2021
β±οΈ 37 minutes
ποΈ Recording | iTunes | RSS
π§ΎοΈ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | 1 ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε ε |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to Still Watching. I'm Vanity Fair Senior Editor Joanna Robinson. And I'm Vanity Fair Chief Critic Richard Lawson. If you're just joining us for the first time, what we'd like to do on this show is we pick a show, that we're watching, we watch it closely, we to week, and then we break it down. Sometimes we have interviews with the folks who were involved in making the show. Right now we are, we are juggling two |
| 1:00.0 | balls in the air. We are wrapping up Falcon in the winter soldier. Those episodes go up on Fridays, and we are starting Mayor of East Town. So this is episode one of Still Watching Mayor of East Town, HBO's new limited series, detective drama, starring Kate Winslet. And yeah, I'm excited to dive into another who done it with you Richard. |
| 1:23.0 | She's not the mayor of East Town. She is a mayor of East Town, M-A-R-E, in case people want more. I was like really trying to pronounce it smoothly. I saw a funny tweet that was just mayor of winning him. |
| 1:36.0 | Mr. Mayor. Here we go on another who done it. We've done a few of these. We've seen some episodes in the series, but we've not seen the ending. And it's not based on a book. So we genuinely don't know who done it. Do we, Richard? |
| 1:58.0 | No, we don't. And I'm very proud of myself. I did watch a few episodes because we were trying to decide if it was worth or was a good fit for covering on the show. So I did watch a little bit ahead, but I stopped myself. There are screeners available to me that I have not watched, which, you know, it takes incredible restraint. I should probably win awards for that. |
| 2:16.0 | I think you should at least get a cake if not several statuettes. So I'm very proud of you. If you've never done a who done it show with us before, we've done a couple. |
| 2:25.0 | We love your theories. We love to guess. In the past, it's been a little tricky for me because I usually know who done it because I've either seen all the screeners or read the book, but this time I'm with you and with all of you. |
| 2:36.0 | This episode starts with an introduction of the character of mayor played by Kate Winslet. So let's just, let's just start the beginning and the mood that's established here and the character of mayor who will be following Richard. |
| 2:52.0 | I think a lot of people are really seeing Kate Winslet's portrayal of mayor as the thing to get truly excited for in this season. |
| 3:03.0 | So what do you think of this character and Kate's decision to go for this part? |
| 3:08.0 | Well, I think that something is so interesting about this show. The Kate Winslet factory is obviously the big draw, but it's also not based on anything. |
| 3:16.0 | It is just something that the writer Brad Engelsby wrote. And so I think that doing something that is not, you know, sort of IP the way the undoing was people had read that book, you know. |
| 3:29.0 | You really have to rely that much more on the star. |
| 3:33.0 | You know, and Winslet has worked with HBO before quite fruitfully with the Todd Haynes adaptation of, oh my god, what's the title? |
| 3:42.0 | Cheers. Thank you. |
| 3:45.0 | And, you know, I don't know what Kate Winslet's box office numbers are. Q score is, but you know, she's a big star, an award winning star. |
| 3:53.0 | And seeing her in this mode of playing a small town or small city detective in America, in a particular region of America with its own, you know, accent and dialect and things and history. |
| 4:07.0 | I mean, not that all regions don't, but like is an interesting challenge for her. It's an interesting new opportunity for viewers. |
| 4:15.0 | And I think based on this first episode, it does sort of meet that brief. I mean, it's both a really interesting Kate Winslet performance, maybe a dubious accent note here and there, while also doing more than I expected, which is this kind of |
| 4:30.0 | slice of life of her family and to some extent of the town. So it's offering a lot in the pilot episode that hopefully disparate audience members can grab onto if not the Winslet of it all. |
| 4:44.0 | I think most people who have spent time with like British detective series are fairly familiar with what we're seeing here, which is a sort of broad church or maybe more specifically happy valley. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Vanity Fair, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Vanity Fair and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright Β© Tapesearch 2025.