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(Note: This article contains major plot spoilers for the finale episode.)

The HBO drama “Mare of Easttown” proved to be the ultimate in water-cooler murder mysteries, provoking endless fan theories about the identity of its main baddie, but has a show ever gotten as much buzz for its prop work? Memes proved ubiquitous highlighting Delco detective Mare Sheehan’s (Kate Winslet) boundless affection for hoagies, Cheez Whiz, good coffee and her treasured vape pen, but what made these items so indelible is that they genuinely created a sense of lived-in character (try to forget Jean Smart swiping her hand left and right on that Fruit Ninja game), and as proved in the final episode, a prop even proves to be the eureka moment for Mare finally cracking the unwieldy, tragedy-strewn murder case at the heart of the series.

Property master Susannah McCarthy is most pleased by this attention to her efforts.

Tommy Shellner's bedroom, including childhood sketches from the character, which were done by Stefan Baumann.  Dig the pulp magazine cover on the wall. By Terry Keefe Photos by Meg Urbani and Stefan Baumann

We're on the set of The Red Robin feature film and were blown away by the work of production designer Dave Barnes, who transformed a stately Villanova, Pa mansion (once owned by NBA legend Dr. J!) into the home of the fictional Shellner Family. 

The story centers around an ill-fated family reunion, in which the patriarch of the family, Dr. Nathaniel Shellner (played by Judd Hirsch), a famed psychiatrist, is on his death bed. Years earlier, Dr. Shellner adopted a number of children, who are now adults. The youngest of those children, Tommy Shellner (played by Ryan O'Nan), makes the stunning accusation that his father adopted the children for the purposes of experimentation for the government.

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