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Big Little Lies – Season 1, Episode 7 You Get What You Need

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Big Little Lies – Season 1, Episode 7

You Get What You Need

Aired Apr 2, 2017

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After another fight, Celeste makes a bold move; Madeline deals with fallout from her past.

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There are no easy answers in "You Get What You Need," but the finale does right by its talented ensemble in more ways than one.

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Angelica Jade Bastién

Refinery29

08/15/2017

Facing the ocean with the sun on their skin, they've found something they didn't have at the beginning of the series but needed desperately: true, open friendships.

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Nicole Sperling

Entertainment Weekly

04/05/2017

A-

Big Little Lies had the audacity to examine mothering, divorce, infidelity, domestic violence, and the fractious divide between working and stay-at-home moms. And it did it with a generosity and kindness not usually afforded characters like this.

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Gwen Ihnat

AV Club

04/05/2017

A-

I hope that this current prestige TV season proves once and for all how much of a market and a blank canvas there is for female-fueled and -focused projects. Big Little Lies showed us all just how amazing and valuable a series like that can be.

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Gill Crawford

Radio Times

05/31/2019

What began as a fairly light drama of desperate Californian housewives has morphed into one of the most powerful and moving dramas about domestic abuse and the search for freedom we've seen for many years.

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Lacy Baugher

The Tracking Board

06/23/2018

In a tense, thrilling final episode that's so all-around good that it can be forgiven for crafting an ending that, at times, feels a little too neat.

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Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez

Tom & Lorenzo

06/19/2018

Big Little Lies succeeded so well as a series because of the commitment to telling these stories and because of the astonishingly good work by the actresses telling it.

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Synopsis

After another fight, Celeste makes a bold move; Madeline deals with fallout from her past.

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Executive Producer: Reese Witherspoon, Bruna Papandrea, Nicole Kidman, Per Saari, David E. Kelley, Jean-Marc Vallée, Nathan Ross, Gregg Fienberg
Screenwriter: David E. Kelley
Network: HBO
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date: Apr 2, 2017