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Big Little Lies – Season 2, Episode 1 What Have They Done?

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Following first-day-of-school events, Madeline is worried by Bonnie's behavior and is shocked when Abigail says she doesn't want to go to college; Mary Louise, Celeste's mother-in-law, offers her unvarnished assessment of Madeline's character.
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Big Little Lies — Season 2, Episode 1

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Armed with a killer bob and a quietly unhinged personality, Mary Louise proves to be an intimidating force for the Monterey Five in the season 2 premiere of Big Little Lies.

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Ben Travers IndieWire 06/19/2019
B+
Season 2 doesn't feel like a necessary addition so much as an enjoyable epilogue - but it's still proven this group has plenty more to say. Go to Full Review
Rebecca Nicholson Guardian 06/19/2019
On the basis of this first episode, it is very much top-quality business as usual, with an added and welcome garnish of Meryl Streep at her absolute Streepiest. Go to Full Review
Serena Davies Daily Telegraph (UK) 06/19/2019
Big Little Lies, essentially, turns the eliciting of schadenfreude into an art form. Go to Full Review
Swetha Ramakrishnan Firstpost 10/09/2023
Even though it may seem like not much has changed in the Big Little Lies universe, so much is simmering under its "normality." Go to Full Review
Christopher Hooton NME (New Musical Express) 07/14/2021
Andrea Arnold taking over is an exciting replacement, not that we should expect an auteurist touch from her as TV directing is invariably more about visual and tonal consistency across episodes. Go to Full Review
Fiona Flynn entertainment.ie 12/13/2019
Whichever way this season goes, the opening episode has done enough here to prove this show was worth resuscitating for another run. Go to Full Review
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Episode Info

Synopsis Following first-day-of-school events, Madeline is worried by Bonnie's behavior and is shocked when Abigail says she doesn't want to go to college; Mary Louise, Celeste's mother-in-law, offers her unvarnished assessment of Madeline's character.
Director
Andrea Arnold
Executive Producer
Reese Witherspoon, Bruna Papandrea, Nicole Kidman, Per Saari, David E. Kelley, Jean-Marc Vallée, Nathan Ross, Gregg Fienberg, Andrea Arnold, Liane Moriarty
Screenwriter
David E. Kelley
Network
HBO
Rating
TV-MA
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date
Jun 9, 2019