With the premiere of Season Two fast approaching, it’s time for a Big Little Lies recap.
The second season of Big Little Lies will see the return of Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, Zoë Kravitz, and Shailene Woodley aka The Monterey Five. They will be joined by new characters including the amazing Meryl Streep! Streep plays Mary Louise, the grieving mother of Perry (Alexander Skarsgård) who died at the end of Season One. Mary Louise is there to get some answers about that fatal night.
“I’m playing someone who is dealing with whatever the deficits of her parenting were, whatever the mysteries and how you can’t go back in time and fix something, all those issues,” Streep explained. “That was interesting to me.”
The second season picks up after Perry’s death, which was caused by Bonnie (Kravitz) when she saw him getting aggressive with his wife Celeste (Kidman).
“We left off with a lie, so it would have been disingenuous not to mine that lie for all its malignancy,” writer David E. Kelley told Entertainment Weekly. “It’s going to result in more skewed fractures and fissures in the friendships between the women, some of the marriages, and some of the individual psyches.”
Per the official logline, the forthcoming season “will explore the malignancy of lies, the durability of friendships, the fragility of marriage and, of course, the vicious ferocity of sound parenting. Relationships will fray, loyalties will erode…the potential for emotional and bodily injury shall loom.”
Big Little Lies Season Two premieres, June 9.
