Big Little Lies
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I can still hear it, echoing in my ear canals.
Everyone in Monterey, it seems, is about to snap.
Their kids are designing school projects entirely based on their mothers collective frazzle.
Bonnie most of all, but Madeline too, and certainly Renata.
Big Little Liesis essentially Madelines show; the novel too was mostly told from her point of view.
Shes Janes protector, Celestes big voice, Renatas compadre in fury.
Madeline has gone about her apology to Ed entirely like an advice columnist might advise.
Shes confessed, zealously declared herself the entire problem, looked into couples workshops.
To be fair, Bonnie is literal fire at Amabellas disco birthday party.
Really, this party is Bonnies party.
Its her cerulean-eye-shadow world, her crochet-halter-top reality, her peacock-kimono plane of existence.
How did the rest of us even get in?
Too bad the party goes south for Bonnie.
Are those ocean waves and Bonnies floating body truly part of some mystical experience?
Or were they all portending a physiological breakdown?
She cant speak, at least for now, so its hard to know.
If, like me, youve been wondering exactlyhowrich they really are (were?
), we finally get the full rundown when they head to bankruptcy court this episode.
A condo in Aspen, a four-bedroom house in Palm Beach, a 50-foot yacht (TheAmabella!
Gordon cant help but interject), their $20 million glass-walled pad in Monterey.
And those are just the real-estate assets.
Should we feel sorry for One Percenters brought low by their own greed?
I have exactly one pinkie fingernails worth of sympathy for Gordon, who thought himself a demigod.
But for Renata I ache.
Now they fuck over the self-made wife by tying her up inside her husbands misdeeds.
Sure, Renata is brash and obnoxious and far too used to the dreamworld of wealth.
Two handsome grandsons, I thought for sure thered be three!
Ugh, gag me, Mary Louise.
And this is when Mary Louise goes full monster on us.
And Streep makes it all look easy.
Mary Louise catching her with a shirtless overnight guest is just the cherry on top.
