Big Little Lies HBO

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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).

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!

Loved.