Big Little Lies Season 02 Episode 01 Review

Big Little Lies has a comeback after a sensational season 1. When you watch such talents like Shailene Woodley, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, Zoe Kravitz come together, you want more of them and more of the content that gives them space to be together great. But season 02 started off with Meryl Streep joining them all as Mary Louise.

Everyone will think that they get some solid content this time around, even better than what we got during the first time around. The hype and buzz surrounding this series was on epic scale and many, including us, thought this could be as sensational as Stranger Things or next Game of Thrones for TV. But the season 02 start doesn't promise such an iconic start in any ways.

The mood looks gloomy as it should be but then the characters don't really feel the same. Yes, they did undergo a crisis but the way this drama tries to portrays it, we just feel like going down to them and say this is not a character you did last time around. Please play her better and different to each one of them.

Rather than feeling complexity behind the emotions we just feel like they are all trying to go for a different tone in a random manner and see if that sticks. Laura Dern doesn't get any bite but Meryl Streep is again terrific. She just absorbs the character and gives it little bit more than we can imagine.

Again the writing is not as solid as it used to be. First of all, the tone can either be subtle or loud, it cannot be a mix of both. The hints and flashbacks don't always work to strengthen the point rather they seem like just dragging some more stuff out. We just want to them more deeply as a group but all we get is some are ok with the incident and some are in trauma rather than them coming together to confront it all. Jean-Marc Velle and Andrea Arnold doesn't seem to really deliver on that aspect at all.