- Where were you in 2017, spring?
- Like, the whole spring?
- Just Sundays, specifically. And don’t you lie to me!
- I was watching Big Little Lies with you.
- That’s true. I really like that show.
- Welcome to the Bustle Breakdown, where we break down all the shows you’re buzzing about. My name is Cynia.
- I’m Vanessa.
- And today we’re talking about Big Little Lies!
- And we’re clearly dressed like the Audreys from the Audrey party that’s in the show.
I think we need to recap what happened in Season 1 to get you all ready for Season 2. What do you say?
- 60 seconds? - [Gasp]
- Go!
- OK. Shailene Woodley’s character moves in, into town, and she’s so different than everyone else.
- Different. And she has a son named Ziggy.
- And they think that Ziggy choked one of the little kids at the school, but he clearly didn’t do it.
- There’s no way. - He’s a nice boy.
- But there was a murder. - [Gasp] Yes!
- Not from Ziggy, but there was, like, a murder, and we don’t know who died or who did it or what. We just know there was a murder.
- Mm-hmm. Oh, and we know that something really wild, traumatic happened to Jane’s character when—
because she was, like, running, having these PTSD-like moments.
- Yeah, like flashbacks. - Yeah.
- And then Celeste — who’s Nicole Kidman — she’s there and she’s married to, like, the worst man on the planet.
- The worst.
- Reese Witherspoon— - Oh!
- —is Madeline?
- Yeah, she’s Madeline, and she’s, like, seemingly perfect.
She seems almost a little bit ditzy, but she really gets a lot of affinity for Jane and they become, like, fast friends.
- Which is good because she needs it because she’s new in town, and then, uh, there’s the women, like, they overcome—
- Adversity and they, like, stick together— - The mean husband is the one who died!
- Yes, he is, and Bonnie’s great!
Phew!
Oh, my gosh. I think we did pretty OK, but we missed out on some really important pieces.
- Yeah, a couple of big things.
- OK, so Alexander Skarsgård is dead. He’s gone. - Dead!
- Poof! The person who did it, though, was kind of a surprise. - Mm-hmm.
- It’s Bonnie. Bonnie pushes him down the stairs, and they all kind of stand there and they, like, it’s real quiet, but it’s understood.
Like, we’re going to have each other’s back and no one’s going to snitch.
- Another thing we forgot to mention is that the guy who died is Ziggy’s dad.
- I know. - That’s, like, a big deal.
- Huge! OK, Meryl Streep is coming in to play Alexander Skarsgård’s mom in Season 2.
- Yes! You know what might be fun actually?
- What’s that?
- Should we play Two Truths and a Big Little Lie? - No.
- Really? - No, that was my big little lie! [Laughter]
- One of my biggest fears is dying in a plane crash.
- OK.
- Nicole Kidman and Lenny Kravitz, who is Zoe’s dad, used to be engaged.
Shailene Woodley had never run prior to her filming scenes for the role of Jane.
- Uh, I think Lenny Kravitz and Nicole Kidman were never engaged.
- That’s incorrect.
- Really? - They were engaged. Yeah.
- Are you serious? - It doesn’t make sense, but it happened. Yeah.
- OK, are you ready? - Yes!
- Zoe Kravitz received her yoga training to play the role of Bonnie, the yoga instructor.
- Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
- I’ve had the same box of cereal on the top of my refrigerator for over a year.
- OK.
- Laura Dern has previously played Shailene Woodley’s mom in, like, a show or movie.
- Right. I feel like it’s the cereal. That’s weird.
- No, that’s true. That’s true.
- [Laughter] OK, wait, so that means that what’s true is that Laura Dern has played Shailene Woodley’s mom before?
- Mm-hmm. In The Fault in Our Stars.
- Ohhh. - Yes! OK, your turn. Round 3.
- The trivia night scene took two weeks to film.
My accent is fake, and I’m actually Australian.
- Hmm.
- Or Big Little Lies the book is set in Australia.
- You could be Australian. How do you feel about capybara?
- Love ’em! - [Laughter]
- No, you’re not Australian!
- I don’t know, I wish I knew what was going to happen in Season 2.
- Me, too!
- If only there was, like, a way to know.
- Alright, it sounds like it’s time for…
- Predictaball!
- Whoo! Yes!
- OK, so, someone leaked a photo of Reese Witherspoon throwing an ice cream cone at Meryl Streep.
- [Gasp] Yes!
- But here’s my prediction: I predict that the ice cream was Rocky Road.
- [Gasp] Chunky for extra damage! - Yes!
- Oh, my god. I predict that — and I hate to say it — even though all the women are, like,
standing together as we last left them, Bonnie’s the one who pushed him down
the stairs and I feel like someone’s going to hold that over her head. In the group, yeah.
- [Gasp] Oh, I predict that Jane is no longer having those bad visions and flashbacks—
- Oh, good!
- —now that Alexander Skarsgård’s character is no longer, like, alive to scare her.
Maybe she’s not, like, running through the sand. She, like, took up P90X.
- I predict there will be another murder, and it will be Meryl Streep.
- [Gasp] You think they’re going to take out the whole family?
-She’s going to figure out what happened, and they’re going to have no choice but to…
- I predict that all of our predictions are going to come true! You’re welcome, HBO. We did all the hard work for you.
- I’ll take my check, please! Thank you. - In half. We’re going to split it.
- Alright, guys, thank you for watching the Bustle Breakdown.
- And we hope we gave you the push you needed to fall through the series.
- Oh, I get it. Oh! Good job. - [Laughter]
- Don’t forget to like and subscribe. Thanks for watching! Bye!