Fans who were eagerly waiting to see Reese Witherspoon angrily pelt ice cream at Meryl Streep in Big Little Lies were left outraged when they learned the footage had been cut from this week's episode. Set photos of Reese's character Madeline Martha Mackenzie launching a cone at Mary Louise Wright, played by Meryl, were widely circulated last August, creating plenty of buzz for the second season of the HBO show. When the show's fifth episode, 'Kill Me,' aired on Sunday night, people were quite literally screaming for ice cream after they realized the highly-anticipated scene between the Oscar-winning actors ended up on the cutting room floor. What? Big Little Lies fans are angry that a scene in which Reese Witherspoon's character Madeline throws ice cream at Meryl's Mary Louise was cut after the photos circulated last year There was footage of Madeline and her daughter Abigail (Kathryn Newton) buying ice cream before having a confrontation with Mary Louise … [Read more...] about Big Little Lies fans are NOT happy about this scene cut
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The Complicated Californian Dream of Big Little Lies
In A Field Guide to Getting Lost, the Californian essayist Rebecca Solnit writes that “the world is blue at its edges and in its depths.” She calls this color the “blue of distance,” a blue that you can see standing on the edge of California, staring out over the Pacific Coast, and that can fill a person with an electric current of desire. There is no farther West that you can go, except to plunge straight into the ocean. But, of course, we always want to keep going. It can be difficult to accept that the land ends, that the craggy bluffs off of Highway One drop off into black nothingness. And so, Californians invent: They create new technological frontiers, develop new spiritual hungers, birth an entire industry based on professional make-believe. They learn over time how to pine for the place while standing right in the middle of it; it’s how they keep generating infinite needs out of a finite territory. On Sunday night, Big Little Lies, a seven-episode … [Read more...] about The Complicated Californian Dream of Big Little Lies
What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Big Little Lies’ and ‘Claws’
What BIG LITTLE LIES 9 p.m. on HBO. In its first season, this melodramatic murder-mystery defined itself as a whodunit decidedly more interested in its characters than its who had been killed. Instead, the show, created by David E. Kelley (“Ally McBeal”) and based on a novel by Liane Moriarty, trained its eyes on its beautiful Monterey, Calif., location and the lives of its central characters: a tech executive (Laura Dern), a retired lawyer (Nicole Kidman) and a recently remarried, very outspoken mother (Reese Witherspoon). While initially marketed as a mini-series, the show is back for a second season — this time moving past the plot of the novel and adding Meryl Streep, who plays the mother-in-law of Kidman’s character, and Andrea Arnold (“American Honey”), BLINDSPOTTING (2018) 2:55 p.m. on ActionMax. In her review for The New York Times, Manohla Dargis wrote that “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” out this weekend, “belongs … [Read more...] about What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Big Little Lies’ and ‘Claws’
How ‘Big Little Lies’ Fed Our Current Obsession for TV Murder Mysteries
Adultery, small-town secrets, murder, penis injuries, sex, lies and Elvis impersonations – if you were looking for a modern version of Peyton Place jacked up on steroids and white wine spritzers, Big Little Lies was your go-to Sunday night viewing. But the limited, seven-episode run of HBO’s glossy, seaside soap opera didn’t become one of the most talked about TV events of the year just by gathering together an Avengers-like movie-star ensemble cast (Kidman! Woodley! Witherspoon! A-listers Assemble!) and giving them license to behave badly. Rather, this adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel about a group of well-to-do women generated Twitter chatter by making its audience wait for it. In the age of binge-watching and beware-of-social-media spoilers, the show gave viewers a mystery worth solving in the very beginning of the first episode – and then withheld the identities of both the killer and their victim until the final moments of show’s … [Read more...] about How ‘Big Little Lies’ Fed Our Current Obsession for TV Murder Mysteries
Why Big Little Lies, Originally a Miniseries, Is Coming Back to HBO for Season 2 This June
Two years ago at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif., the cast and producers of HBO’s Big Little Lies insisted their show was a miniseries and that the story would not continue. Cut to two years later, and the original cast—Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, Zoe Kravitz and Shailene Woodley, with the addition of Meryl Streep—reassembled at winter press tour to explain why they ended up making a second season, which will begin airing in June, after all. “We all said goodbye at the end [of Season 1]. But we became very close and we had such a good time together. The desire to spend time together was a huge part of it,” said Nicole Kidman, who plays Celeste and is also an executive producer. But there was also an “enormous demand from the audience” to see these characters again. Pointed out creator and writer David E. Kelley, who again wrote the entire season, “We didn’t … [Read more...] about Why Big Little Lies, Originally a Miniseries, Is Coming Back to HBO for Season 2 This June