![]() It’s a brilliant character choice, subtle and yet deeply revealing. He was introduced to Mare’s case as a big-shot detective in the area, but his slip into a thicker Pennsylvanian accent reveals he’s really just a hometown boy, not so different from Mare after all. Can you believe that? His accent comes out stronger as he slurs through his sadness. “I woke up one morning and she said ‘nooope, not in love with you anymore.” Zabel does a little faux-surprise gasp after that, as if to offer Mare a suggestion for an appropriate reaction to his story. “I still don’t know what happened,” he explains to Mare, who’s listening more intently now, but with the amused smirk of someone significantly more sober than the company. He’s had a bad night his ex-fiancé was at the reunion. He blinks them slowly, for long enough that you can tell he’s a bit dizzy, and breathes through his mouth like he’s considering, whilst ordering himself a shot, if his esophagus might reject it. His eyes look drunk, empty-if Peters did not himself drink seven Rolling Rocks before shooting this scene, then his eyes can act, too. He's out because “it’s the post-game, the boyyssss” following his 15-year high school reunion. ![]() But, as it goes when you’re too drunk to pick up on your companion’s social cues, Detective Colin Zabel begins to recount his evening for her. He proceeds to order “one more for m’ladyyyy” for the unimpressed Mare, who looks like she’d rather melt into the sticky bar top if she could. He flags the bartender down with an arm and a loud “bar guy!” which he quickly follows up with an apology. But man, has he had a couple drinks too many. Simply put, he's very drunk.Īnd he's spotted his new detective partner Mare across the bar and naturally, come over to say hello. It's immediately evident from Peters' body language that this is a side of Zabel we haven't seen yet. He's a chipper young go-hard detective with Boy Scout energy. Prior to this scene, all we knew of Mare's fresh-faced new partner is that he's a clean-cut do-gooder, eager to please. ![]() That is, until Peters’ Detective Colin Zabel appears, greets her with a slightly slurred, very Pennsylvanian “Well, howdy-doo there, partner,” and the air shifts. In Episode Three of HBO’s excellent new detective thriller Mare of Easttown, Kate Winslet’s Mare is sitting alone at the bar, drinking a Rolling Rock, as usual, while contemplating a pretty serious choice she’s just made that could come back to bite her. It's also the perfect soundtrack for a near-sloppy drunk detective, played by Evan Peters, to come out of his cage in front of his new partner. Brightside." It's the type of song you'd absolutely hear in a small town Pennsylvania dive bar-a place with a Miller Lite sign hanging in the window.
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