I came in here trashing Mare of Easttown after watching one episode and I need to come back and let you all know how wrong I was. Honestly, I chalk a lot of that up to Kenny, who on introduction felt like such a Leo Johnson from Twin Peaks level cartoonishly dumb redneck type. But yeah, the show's very good; I'm glad it's been more about the characters than the mystery (that may have been another reason I was down on the pilot; the inciting murder seemed a little rote).
Also, I just finished my first ever watchthrough of Star Trek Deep Space Nine. It's very weird because it turns out I remember a decent number of episodes from watching it in syndication in the 90s (Hard Time is one which really stuck with me all these years). I liked it overall; funny enough, the show gets a lot of credit for introducing serialized story arcs and presaging a lot of trends in television storytelling in the next decade or two, but by the time I reached the end of the 10-episode concluding story arc I really missed the more self-contained episodes.
