Big Little Lies, Season 2
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, Zoe Kravits, Meryl Streep;
Direction: Jean-Marc Vallee and Andrea Arnold;
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Unless you think of "The Godfather Part 2", very few sequels are given an unconditional
"Big Little Lies", which made a grand impact last year is back with another season. And with reason. There is so much of a story left to tell. The five protagonists, Madeline (Reese Witherspoon), Celeste (Nicole Kidman), Jane (Shailene Woodley), Renata (Laura Dern) and Bonnie (Zoe Kravitz) have so much left to say and feel.
In its second season, the show remains as compelling and saturated in the screaming silences of lives that are brought to the brink, as it was in Season 1. The Big Event in Season 2 is
And never mind the ugly teeth prosthetics.
Streep has some strong scenes, especially one where Renata (Laura Dern, blissfully over-the-top in Season 2 as well) screams at and taunts Streep in an eatery. Streep simply silences the screaming socialite with a rebuke. The sequence ends fabulously with Streep telling the eatery's attendant to pack what Renata has ordered, "because we're going to the same place".
The courtroom finalé would have looked like
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The narrative stretching into seven episodes has heft and resonance. Conflicts among
What seemed a little hard to believe was Meryl Streep's absolute denial of the wife-beating personality of her murdered son (Alexander Skarsgård). Streep's comments on her son's sexual
But the dramatic highs, such as the bravura courtroom finalé is so exhilarating, one tends to overlook the aberrations. Oh yes, before I forget, India is
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