Joyce Fegan: Why Kate Winslet's 'fully functioning, flawed woman' resonates

The actress’s raw, unadorned, and unglamorous portrayal of middle age, in her TV show, ‘Mare of Easttown’, speaks to how we really live and how we really look

Kate Winslet in 'The Mare of Easttown' has not only captured our pandemic selves, but also just ourselves.

Somewhere between planning staycations, fake tan applications and queuing to go clothes shopping, there is a space. In that space, you can still go make-up free, wear comfortable clothes, see your family during the middle of the day and eat from the carbohydrate food group.

The space is populated by Kate Winslet, and her character Mare, in the hit TV series  Mare of Easttown, which reached its climax this week.