I viewed it as Mare doing exactly what Colin’s mother accused her of - agreeing to go out on a “date” with him just so she could be near the case and pump him for information. She was clearly not interested in a romantic relationship after she agreed to go out with him.  When Colin brought up what his mother said,…

I assumed Mare definitely snagged the bottle for testing. She looked at it way too closely.

A DNA test should at least reveal that the father was a close relative, and an uncle would qualify in that regard. Maybe if the testing lab was following very strict guidelines to only state whether or not one of the two possible fathers were the actual father and nothing else. 

I strongly suggest to the reviewer to watch Forbrydelsen’s first season.
Cause I am sure Mare’s creators have. Along with Silence of the Lambs of course. And a few more shows they have borrowed elements from. I guess new viewers were shocked, well I wasn’t really. 
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Forbrydelsen is a masterpiece. The killer’s…

Would the paternity testing they did on Erin’s baby show whether the father was a relative of Erin’s? I don’t really know enough about DNA testing to say one way or the other, maybe they would need an independent sample of the father’s DNA, or maybe Billy isn’t closely enough related to Erin to show up in the DNA test…

I’ve been wondering about the potential Zobel/Zabel connection. I have to assume the show was largely all written before Craig Zobel came on board as director/executive producer. All the episodes were originally planned to be directed by Gavin O’Connor, but he had to back out of that role due to scheduling conflicts,…

Haven’t they done most of the papering over already? The Chief’s public story is that Mare was never suspended, she was just taking a leave of absence to deal with stress. All they really have to say is that Mare felt ready to return to work.

Thinking Billy Ross is baby daddy but not the killer. If he’s neither, what a blatant, last-minute red herring.

That’s what my wife said! I saw it as more of a red flag that he bailed so quickly after opening a beer and not even taking a sip.

I was waiting for some dark humor with Mare hearing a CRUNCH underfoot as she searched the house during the blackout.

LOL I could kick myself for not anticipating that after that kinda nice kiss between Zabel and Mare, that Zabel would be dead meat afterwards. I wonder if she’ll try to commiserate with Zabel’s mom. (that was a joke)

This is show is an endless series of red herrings.

If Dylan does anything with that money other than fix that baby’s ear, I will definitely kick his fictional ass. On sight.

Whenever I watch this show, some how I keep thinking “When is HBO going to have a series where Angourie Rice plays Amy Adams daughter?”. Like a “Sharp Objects 2".

Based on this episode, I’m fully into the notion that John Ross is Erin’s killer.

Her arch-nemesis is the kid who drew the big tits on the shed.

Nope.

Mare’s mom even says that calling it an affair was a stretch, she only slept with him two, maybe three times, and that shows how little it meant to her.

I know. I just stopped reading right there. That’s just fucking embarrassing. Even if you misheard the name (and at first I wasn’t sure who he was talking about when he said the name), it’s quite obvious from Mare’s and Mare’s mom’s reactions that Mare’s mom was the “other woman.”

I still think there’s more to the kid Ryan, they’ve been keeping him in the corner too much for just being sad about his cheating dad.