Big Little Lies HBO

[SmoothLover]

I am surprised that there has been no thread about this great miniseries. The 4 women are all fantastic and the themes are very strong.

[dramamama611]

I watched the first episode and liked it....and then promptly forgot about it. I have episodes 3&4 dvr'd, but need to watch 2.

 

Knowing me, I might not get around to it.

[SmoothLover]

I was never a big Kidman fan but she has won me over. The best work I have ever seen her do. And it is so much fun to see Whitherspoon  using her sense of humor again.  

[JPeterman]

I love this show.  You know a weekly show is good when it feels like a month for the next episode to air!  Similar to what SL said, I was never a big Whitherspoon fan but this has won me over with her.  Great acting.

[WithoutATrace]

I'm watching.  I think all five episodes thus far have been outstanding.  Kidman and Witherspoon are just excellent in this...plus the supporting cast is fantastic as well.  Laura Dern is great at playing a stuck up snobby bitch who always gets her way.  LOL

Looking forward to the next few weeks and finding out who was killed and who did it!

[Call_me_jorge]

I watched the first episode and loved it. So happy Iain Armitage is getting tv work, he's brilliant.

[uncageg]

Loving it. The last episode left !e emotionally drained! So well done.

I am also in the camp who has not been a big Witherspoon fan but she is acting the hell out of this role. I did not know Dern was in it until I was watching it. That was a very nice surprise for me. 

I have always loved Kidman and she is wonderful, as usual. Those scenes with the marriage counselor last week were intense.

[VIETgrlTerifa]

It's so entertaining to see Witherspoon and Dern go at it in this show after they played such a loving daughter/mother in Wild.

[SmoothLover]

Kidman was quite good in the therapist scene and the woman playing the therapist is great. She seems like a real therapist nurturing yet getting at the truth without upsetting Kidman so much that she runs out of the room.

It will be interesting to see who was murdered but that subplot seems secondary to the themes that connect all of the women.

A friend from work thinks that Kidman's husband is the rapist and father of Ziggy. I have wondered the same thing given that he looks like the fellow who they think was the rapist especially from behind. I also wonder if the girl accusing Ziggy is actually provoking everything.

[VIETgrlTerifa]

I have a theory (that I'm not too married to) that the twins are the ones harassing Amabella but they are only doing it because they observed the way their father treats their mother and think it's normal behavior since Celeste and her husband are otherwise loving and still together. Just the comment the therapist made about how Celeste thinks her husband and hers relationship impacts her children made me think about it.

[Mister Matt]

I watched the first episode last night and hope it gets better.  It was sort of like a cross between The Slap and Secrets and Lies (the 2015 TV series, not the brilliant 1996 movie).  It seemed to be straddling the fence of camp and I just wanted it to pick a side and stay there.

[uncageg]

Matt, it gets better.

It is also amusing how Avenue Q plays into it. I was told it is not used in the book.

[SmoothLover]

Mister Matt try a few more episodes and then come back on and give us your scoop. You always have interesting things to say.

[uncageg]

The suspense is killing me! Her therapisg !eeting tbis week was intense. I thought we might get to or close to thr murder this week. I think we are really being thrown off and the murder was not committed by an adult.

 Also loving all of the music they are using.

Am actually thinking about reading the book after it is over.

[WithoutATrace]

"Am actually thinking about reading the book after it is over."

I am planning on doing this too! Last night's episode was EXCELLENT.

[NYadgal]

Ditto.

And, agree about the twins being the ones who have attacked Amabella.  They've potentially witnessed violence as an expression of love in their home, so it makes sense.

I really loved Jane last night.  Her relationship with Ziggy is a treasure. 

I find the children to be such captivating actors - so natural.  

[uncageg]

A friend of mine read the book and is watching. He said they have a lot left to cover in one hour to wrap things up and is wondering how they are going to fit it all in.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

I'm three episodes in, but I'm only just now realizing that Ziggy is the cute kid who does all the adorable Broadway reviews on YouTube (IainLovesTheatre)!

I'm sure he'll be great as "Young Sheldon" in the upcoming Big Bang Theory spinoff too - it's great to see him doing so well. 

[RippedMan]

Isn't that like Euan Morton's son or something? I think he has a musical theater dad, no? I didn't know that was him. 

I LOVE this show and wish it had 10 episodes left. 

That therapist is KILLING it. I hope she gets an Emmy nom or something. 

[uncageg]

Seems real therapist like her also:

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/03/real-life-therapists-love-the-big-little-lies-therapist.html

[henrikegerman]

I was unimpressed with the first episode, but the positive reviews on this thread got me back to it and I'm glad I did.

I'm not crazy about Witherspoon in this but Kidman is blowing me away.  Kidman's accent is sometimes all over the place.  The scene where the therapist really starts to confront her about the abuse is the one where it's most noticeable.  But Celeste is a great role for her and she's otherwise nailing it.

SPOILER ALERT

I'm up to the episode where Jane first goes to the interior designer's office.

But it seems extremely likely that we are being led to believe, either in a fake out or not, that Ziggy's father is one of the men in Monterey Jane is yet to meet, quite possibly Perry (at least I don't think they've met).

[uncageg]

I was wondering that also. I don't think they met. And he has come home early from trips.

[SmoothLover]

Robin Weigert who plays the therapist is in the current production at the Mitzi Newhouse. I saw the play and woke up in the middle of the night realizing she had played the therapist. I thought perhaps they were using a real therapist for those scenes, Amazing!

[henrikegerman]

^Smoothlover, perhaps you might find it interesting that Wikipedia says that Weigert's dad is a psychiatrist.

[NYadgal]

Loved.  

[WithoutATrace]

Loved it too. Fantastic finale!