The secrets Kate Winslet had to keep for three years

Mare of Easttown is the hottest show on streaming TV, thanks to a performance that captures a ‘wildly flawed, messy, broken, fragmented, difficult woman’.

Kate Winslet came down hard on any attempts to airbrush her face or body in her gritty role as a flawed detective in Mare of Easttown. HBO

Maureen Dowd

Jun 4, 2021 – 9.37am

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Philly’s a tough town. If there’s a quintessential story about the City of Brotherly Love, it’s this one: in 2015, when Canadian researchers developed a child-sized hitchhiking robot with a big smile and yellow wellies, the hitchbot made it across Europe and halfway down the US East Coast, offering friendly small talk to anyone it encountered. Then it got to Philadelphia, where it was promptly torn limb from limb and left in an alley.

Residents have pelted Santa with snowballs and hurled batteries and beer at their own quarterback. They flip cars and set things on fire even when they win the Super Bowl and World Series.