‘Mare of Easttown’ Showrunner on the Lessons Learned in His First Series and Calls for a Second Season

Brad Ingelsby reflects on working on 16-time Emmy nominee MareofEasttown, which tells the story of a detective, already beleaguered by personal tragedy, trying to solve the murder of a local girl, and how the viral SNL spoof 'was a moment of validation'

Assuming you came into this with a familiarity with the murder-mystery genre, what about the genre did you want to lean into and what did you want to avoid?

Were you prepared for the amount of attention that writers get in TV? If a show pops up, it’s the creator who everyone wants to hear from. And I feel like it doesn’t happen that way in film. People have been like, “Were you mad or offended by that?” Truly, all of us loved that. Kate and our producer Mark [Roybal] were texting like, “Maybe this has reached a wider audience …” You never know what’s going to happen when you put something out there. I’ve worked on enough projects over the years where I’ve thought, “Oh, this is great!” Then it gets out there and no one really watches. This was a moment of validation.

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