
“Because that really is what is so cool in Silence of the Lambs is that you’re just so worried, because you do know something that they don’t know,” Zobel said. “We made up that bar sign in order to make sure that the audience recognises that they were walking into a bad scenario. I actually drew the little picture of the drunk guy on the side that’s drawing. Watch on HBO Max with Prime Video Channels S1, Ep5 Illusions 9. Meanwhile, an anonymous call gives Dawn hope that Katie might still be alive. “So the actual sign that you see, that kind of tells you that you’re back in the same bar location was installed by us. With Mare forced to take a backseat on the case, Colin presses a local priest about the vague circumstances that prompted his transfer to the parish. Over the four episodes of Mare of Easttown he appeared in, Detective Colin. So I was like, ‘Oh, this is how we do it,’” Zobel said. HBO This post contains spoilers for episode 5 of HBO's Mare of Easttown. “I rewatched that section of The Silence of the Lambs.
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“When we were talking about shooting that sequence - and when we were location scouting the location - there was a lot of kind of back and forth about when the audience would know that he was the right guy,” Zobel said, noting that he, Mare writer Brad Inglesby, and cinematographer Ben Richardson debated when and how to clue the audience in. In fact, Zobel rewatched Silence of the Lambs for inspiration. If the sequence feels like an homage to Jonathan Demme’s masterpiece The Silence of the Lambs, that was fully intentional.

Once Colin is shot down, Mare has to pursue his murderer all while attempting to find Katie Bailey and Missy Sage and survive.


Viewers were robbed of a developing love story.
