The beloved HBO Max crime drama “Mare of Easttown” was billed as a miniseries, but it now seems that a second season is in the works.
Kate Winslet, who stars as Mare Sheehan, shared a promising update about the show during an interview with Deadline published Thursday, Jan 8. The Oscar winner said that “Mare of “Easttown” was originally “done and dusted” after season 1 aired in 2021, but she’s recently had “some conversations” about resurrecting it.
“They were proper conversations around a timeframe when it could be possible. And so I think we probably will do it, and that’s the first time I’ve felt that,” Winslet said. “[It] wouldn’t actually be this year, I reckon it would end up being 2027 to film it. There’s a strong likelihood it would film sometime in 2027.”
Season 1 of “Mare of Easttown” followed the titular detective as she investigated the murder of a teenage mother in a small Philadelphia suburb. Mare was also dealing with significant personal strife: her son’s death, a custody battle for her grandson, and blowback for failing to solve a previous murder.
The gritty, twisty murder mystery was nominated for six Emmy awards. Winslet and Evan Peters, who played Mare’s partner Colin Zabel, both won Emmys for their roles.
“Mare of Easttown” creator Brad Ingelsby is the brain behind another popular HBO show, the Mark Ruffalo-led crime drama “Task,” which premiered in September 2025. The series was renewed for a second season in November 2025. It was shot in some of the same locations that Ingelsby used for “Mare of Easttown.”
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“I grew up here. I know these streets. I don’t want to run from that,” Ingelsby told TheWrap in September 2025. “These are the people I know. These are the lives that I’m close to. So, I don’t want to run from ‘Mare of Easttown.’ I don’t want to do the same thing as ‘Mare,’ but I’m OK with [’Task’] looking like ‘Mare.’”
The screenwriter also told the outlet why he took a break from “Mare of Easttown.”
“One of the things I really struggled with was I felt like ‘Mare’ was such an emotional journey, and every time I tried to think of what would happen next in Mare’s life, it was always less than that,” Ingelsby said. “And then it was like, is the second season going to be another murder in a small town? And what’s the new trauma that Mare has to deal with that is comparable to that? That was a tough thing. Kate, out of all of us, smartly was like, ‘If it’s not going to be as good, I don’t want to do it.’”
Now that some time has passed, Ingelsby is more able to imagine a future for Mare.
“We have talked about what would Mare look like six years later or something,” he said. “That’s interesting to me, because you can have all this time to build up new things in her life.”
“Mare of Easttown” is available to stream on HBO Max.
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