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Big Little Lies – Season 2, Episode 5 Kill Me

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Big Little Lies – Season 2, Episode 5

Kill Me

Aired Jul 7, 2019

Drama

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Renata deals with the fallout from Gordon's legal troubles and attempts to help Celeste; Bonnie relives painful memories from her past.

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Thoroughly heartbreaking and intense, "Kill Me" does an excellent job of showing how unresolved trauma and abuse can affect children -- regardless of their parent's wealth.

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Reese Witherspoon

Madeline Martha Mackenzie

Nicole Kidman

Celeste Wright

Shailene Woodley

Jane Chapman

Laura Dern

Renata Klein

Zoë Kravitz

Bonnie Carlson

Meryl Streep

Mary Louise Wright

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Shirley Li

The Atlantic

07/08/2019

The adults of Big Little Lies have become entangled in personal crises throughout the second season, but it's the next generation that has quietly absorbed it all.

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Alex Abad-Santos

Vox

07/08/2019

Kill Me speeds the show toward its incendiary confrontation and climax: a custody battle between Mary Louise and Celeste over Celeste's two young boys.

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Alan Sepinwall

Rolling Stone

07/08/2019

Throughout Kill Me -- easily this season's sharpest and most eventful episode so far -- we begin to see the weight of all of the parents' sins starting to emotionally crush their children.

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Swetha Ramakrishnan

Firstpost

10/09/2023

Trauma cannot be controlled. It tumbles out when you least expect and want it. It manifests in the people around you. If you hold it in for too long, it bursts out. If you let it take over you, there's no saying when it will stop.

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Christopher Hooton

NME (New Musical Express)

07/14/2021

The show hits its stride as it heads into the season's home stretch...

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Fiona Flynn

entertainment.ie

12/13/2019

It makes sense why Bonnie has been placed at centre stage for this second season given that she was the one who killed Perry, but it seems like far too much to give to one character with such a short amount of episodes.

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Synopsis

Renata deals with the fallout from Gordon's legal troubles and attempts to help Celeste; Bonnie relives painful memories from her past.

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: Jul 7, 2019