big little lies has earned diehard fans
with its story that weaves in and out of
the present and the past the way it
shifts your sympathies and it's expert
use of cliffhanger endings and now that
season two is over it's time to dig in
and fully explain everything that's
transpired the title of big little lies
season one opener somebody's dead
doesn't leave much to the imagination
but we quickly see that we are not going
to get answers easily in this show
featuring pulses of red and blue lights
and scenes from a swanky party gone awry
the premiere tells us two things there
is an investigation and someone is no
longer alive through the discussion
between investigators and a chorus of
townspeople we learn that the victim
suffered a broken pelvis and a fracture
at the base of the skull and folks are
suspicious of a few infamous community
members who eventually come to be known
as the Monterey five while details are
slow to emerge we soon garner that Reese
Witherspoon's character Madeline
McKenzie is the nosy and bossy leader of
the pack her family and the families of
her best girlfriends come into focus
throughout the opening episode as the
premiere takes us to the beginning of
the school year as metal and drives
daughter Chloe to her first day of
school she ends up behind a car driving
erratically and swiftly rages out
exiting her vehicle to exhibit what we
learn is classic metal and Martha
Mackenzie behavior learning her teenage
daughter Abigail as a passenger in the
car sets her off and she turns her ankle
during a hubris incited tumble in a
twist of fate her soon to be friend Jane
Chapman as well as her son Ziggy are
witnesses to the fall we learned Jane is
new to town and Ziggy is about to start
school alongside Chloe we also get a
glimpse of Celeste and her husband Perry
passionately saying goodbye as Perry
leaves for a work trip arriving at
school Madeline introduces Jane to
Celeste
along with her twins Max and josh and
renata who's with her daughter Emma
Bella
we are also introduced to Madeline's
ex-husband Nathan and his new wife
Bonnie were also introduced to some
tension between the women as their
daughters enter the first grade together
with the main characters in place big
little lies gets moving quickly
right off the bat in season 1 violence
becomes a pervasive theme starting in
the children's world we learned that
someone is hurting Emma Bella at school
forced by her teacher to point out who
was hurting her she places blame on
Ziggy who adamantly denies it while
Renata demands an apology from him
creating friction between her and Jane
meanwhile peri turns from caring husband
into a maniacal sadist hurting and
controlling Celeste their relationship
is revealed to be very complicated as we
see that the violence induces deep
passion between the two but ultimately
Perry's attempts at controlling Celeste
life start to prove too much she slowly
starts to assert her independence
through therapy work and conversations
though she does not reveal Perry's
violence to friends
Jane on the other hand is having
flashbacks to a time on the beach with a
suggestion that she has some secrets in
her past she ultimately reveals to
Madeline that Ziggy was born out of
sexual assault and that her attackers
name is Saxon banks Madeline makes it
her mission to find the man Madeline's
ex-husband Nathan sees Jane at a
shooting range after brushing up on his
skills
Nathan tattles to Madeline who then
confronts Jane as they plot a meeting
between her and Saxon banks
I'd kill if I could
well man I wouldn't say that loudly in
public space Jane assures Madeline that
she was just target practicing
ultimately Jane does meet the man named
Saxon banks but she realizes he isn't
the right guy
Madeline soon works to rekindle the
passion with husband Edie
who's been grappling with their
crumbling marriage and things don't work
out so well
she later winds up getting in a car
crash with Joseph her community theater
colleague and former lover and things
get more complicated when she visits him
in the hospital leading their spouses
and the town to speculate also at this
time Renata's controlling attempts to
create the perfect life for Emma Bella
continued to fail when she finds more
bruises on her daughter's body and
discovers teeth marks Renata fights with
her husband Gordon about what to do and
continues to point the finger at Ziggy
driving Jane and Renata to a physical
altercation after a series of
conversations with her therapist and
after looking at some real estate
Celeste plans to leave peri after the
impending fundraiser party but not
before Celeste takes a swing at his
manhood Perri tries to come on to her
which would have made them late for the
opening night of Madeline's play she
wasn't about to miss her best friend's
big night and in an effort to stop Perri
she accidentally fractures his urethra
with a tennis racket around that time
Madeline confronts Abigail about her
plans to sell her virginity for charity
and confesses her infidelity as a way to
relate to her daughter doesn't fix her
life Joseph's wife Tori later confronts
Madeline at the opening night of her
production of Avenue Q and Madeline
falsely denies that anything happened
with Joseph Renata and Jane meanwhile
find common ground when they learned
there is a petition to kick Ziggy out of
honor-based hole because of the
accusations against him Jane takes the
higher ground and apologizes to Renata
and the tough mom is surprisingly
receptive Harry's violence escalates in
the house and twins Josh and Max are
exposed to his behavior the violence is
certainly influencing them as Emma
Bella's bully is revealed to be max
before leaving for the school's costume
trivia night event parry becomes aware
of Celeste plan to leave him
he begs her to reconsider but she
refuses to back down at the school
fundraiser the main characters
eventually unite Madeline has a
breakdown of sorts after having seen
Tori watching her and she confesses to
Jane about her affair Renata tells
Celeste the truth about Amma Bella's
bully eventually they all gather by the
stairs
including Bonnie who had followed
Celeste after seeing peri trail her when
parry tries to take Celeste home Jane
and her friends realise that he is Saxon
banks Perry becomes violent particularly
at Celeste bunny who was in the wings
runs forward and pushes him down the
stairs in the midst of the chaos killing
him the season 1 finale later ends with
the women happily spending time together
on the beach but with the detectives
doubting the woman's innocence how long
will they stay happy season 2 opens at
the start of second grade for the kiddos
of the Monterey five we see the women
grappling with their pasts in different
ways we are quickly introduced to Mary
Louise who is clearly suspicious of
Celeste from the get-go Detective
Quinlan who has been watching the women
is still on the case and is digging in
deeper right off the bat we can tell
that with Mary Louise trying to get to
the bottom of her son's death the police
sniffing around and Bonnie's aloofness
all is not well with the Monterey five
meanwhile things are looking up for Jane
who has a new job with a cute colleague
named Cory she is shocked to know that
he references her as part of the
Monterey five as it means people in the
town are gossiping about the women here
one of the Monterey five right
water a5 and Madeleine's love life
proves to be hanging on by a thread
when edy has an ominous grocery store
run-in with a newly buxom Tori who gives
him bedroom eyes in the produce section
Renata is feeling herself during a
photoshoot at her home just before she
learns that her husband is getting
arrested for insider trading putting
everything she has worked so hard for in
jeopardy she fires off at him while he
is in jail but she's not just mad at him
for what he did
she's more mad at the consequences of
what he did meanwhile Emma Bella is
stressed out due to Wow
plenty of things leading Renata to go on
a crusade against the school
administration for teaching students
about climate change I will be rich
again I will rise up I will buy a polar
bear fur every kid in this school
Abigail and her mother who have been at
odds are discussing their secret about
Madeline's affair when they notice Edie
in the doorway he learns the truth about
Madeline's cheating and leaves the house
immediately the school calls an assembly
bringing everyone together to discuss
the next steps on climate change
education and Madeline winds up speaking
on behalf of the parents she becomes
emotional and admits that they have
faults seemingly directing her speech at
her husband who stands in the back
ultimately ed and Madeline try going to
therapy to save their marriage
interestingly enough it's becoming
clearer that Bonnie and Nathan are
struggling in their own marriage
Celeste crashes her car during an ambien
fuelled blackout and Mary Louise is
displeased taking notes on the behavior
after an argument involving Celeste and
the boys not to mention an icy run-in
with Madeline it becomes clearer that
Mary Louise is grieving heavily and
isn't going to play nice with anyone she
becomes more aware of the physical
nature of Celeste and Perry's
relationship but seems to chalk it up in
her mind to a twisted relationship
Jane's sons Iggy and Celeste twins find
out that Perri is father to them all and
the twins tell Mary Louise which really
thickens the plot as mary-louise
grapples with the idea that her dead
son could have been such a terrible
person I can't surrenders to this notion
that he was
evil she's also thrown when she sees
that Ziggy takes after Perry's late twin
who died young in a car crash she
confronts Jane on several occasions
first asking for a paternity test and
then accusing her of seducing her son
mary-louise shows up uninvited to
Madeline's pumpkin-carving party and
things get uncomfortable when she tells
Jane that she's rented an apartment in
her building Celeste pulls her aside to
tell her it is inappropriate and
mary-louise digs her heels in saying she
doesn't get believe Jane's claims of
Perry assaulting her after more
back-and-forth their discussion results
in a massive slap from Celeste yep
nicole kidman slapped meryl streep
across the face suddenly it's clear that
there's a power struggle that has only
just begun over for clay Nathan
exasperated over how to handle his stuck
in the doldrums wife calls on her
parents to come and help Bonnie is
furious with him and it becomes clear
she has a massively complicated
relationship with her parents as soon as
her mom walks in it seems she's got
Bonnie's number and Nathan's well I'm
here
because you're ill-equipped to connect
with your way Madeline appeals to a
distant edge to try and make their
marriage work but he doesn't seem to be
too invested despite showing up to the
therapy and couples retreats can't this
couple just make things work I don't
understand the doors hinged
I see Renata grapples to keep some sense
of normalcy for Emma Bella amidst her
husband's legal issues and their
impending bankruptcy so she throws a
giant disco party for her daughter as a
way to keep up appearances and
temporarily dance their troubles away at
the party Celeste Bonnie and Madeline
have a chat about just how much
mary-louise knows the women revealed
that they wish they had not gone along
with Madeline's lie about the night of
Perry's death so you're all talking
about me behind my back
no any more he knows no that's really
much mutely range
right here it's do face Oh Bonnie's
mother Elizabeth sees them talking and
knows something is up
Elizabeth's pushing to learn more from
Bonnie results in her daughter's
storming off as the revelers begin to
leave the party
Elizabeth drops to the ground falling
unconscious and she is taken to the
hospital having suffered a stroke at the
hospital Bonnie spots Detective Quinlan
at the nurse's station and believes
Quinlan is there because she suspects
her of being involved in Perry's death
she's apparently not but it again raises
the question in the characters minds
will the Monterey 5 be found out after
calling a hotshot lawyer in the area and
crafting a list of Celeste wrongdoings
mary-louise offers Celeste joint custody
last night was a misunderstanding this
is not about last night it's about a
whole totality of event you're a mess
Celeste Celeste refuses over the
objections of her own attorney as things
heat up in the grandmother vs. mother
battle Renata attempts an intervention
inviting mary-louise for coffee at her
empty house but her plan doesn't work
and the situation just gets worse
Celeste attorney tells her there is
actually a chance that she could lose
her children devastating Celeste Ziggy
and the twins are suspended from school
after a violent altercation on the
playground with a bully named Brian who
targeted and taunted Ziggy with the
crimes of his father worrying that the
boys take after their aggressive father
Celeste Jane and Corey take the kids
kayaking on their day off from school as
things seemed to dissolve further
between Madeline and Edie incomes Tori
again she temp said with the idea of an
affair of their own because the drama
train never stops when it pulls through
Monterey
Bonnie turns up at the police station
one evening ostensibly to turn herself
in and she sees Cory Jane's boyfriend
leaving
could he be a cop or is he a part of the
investigation
Jane confronts Cory about why he was
there and she learns that the
investigators were questioning him
wanting to learn more about Perry's
death Bonnie never actually entered the
police station but she does confess
everything about the night of Perry's
death and the fact that she doesn't love
her husband to her comatose mother who
has been unconscious since Renata's
party
it is revealed that her mother was a
violent alcoholic throughout her
childhood and Bonnie's father wasn't
there to protect her it was this anger
at her mother's treatment of her that
motivated her to push parry down the
stairs when I lunged at him I was
pushing you that brush was a long time
coming
Celeste and mary-louise go head-to-head
in court where Mary Louise's lawyer
paints Celeste as an unfit mother and
casts doubt on her accusations of abuse
in the season 2 finale the Monterey 5
gets some closure in their personal
lives as the murder investigation
continues
Celeste who's a lawyer takes matters
into her own hands as she cross examines
Mary Louise herself unnerving her
mother-in-law with questions about Mary
Louise's own past and showing a video
the boys took of Perry brutally beating
their mother Celeste ultimately keeps
full custody as for what's happening
with Bonnie her mother dies after which
she tells Nathan how she really feels
about him I'm not in love with you I
know this isn't the best time to tell
you Renata meanwhile goes off on her
husband as she destroys his recently
sold prized train set in a fit of fury
fitting for a man who lost everything
Renata owned around this time Edie
decides that he wants to try again with
Madeline and they renew their vows on
the beach with their daughter's present
this is not some like put a tidy ribbon
on it bygones be bygones ending this is
a shot at a new beginning and we can't
forget about Jane with Ziggy's
permission Jane and Cory officially
start to date before the finale is over
all five women after seemingly finding
some personal resolution show up at the
police station together will they tell
Detective Quinlan the truth are they
closing the book on these big little
lies seeing as how there are currently
no plans in place for a season three its
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