Big Little Lies: Kidman and Witherspoon shine in masterly twist on Desperate Housewives
Bitchy mums, sexy dads, puppet sex and murder. What more could you want? Let me ask you a question..
Bitchy mums, sexy dads, puppet sex and murder. What more could you want?
Let me ask you a question. Would you like a series that has everything? Good. Because it is, emphatically, HERE.
Big Little Lies is the latest offering (this time adapted from a bestselling book of the same name) from David E Kelley (the creator of Boston Legal and – back in the day, children – Ally McBeal). It is set among the moneyed honeys of Monterey, California, and opens with a murder – of whom and by whom it is not yet revealed, but as we flash back and crack open the brittle carapaces of perfection surrounding all the residents’ lives it becomes deliciously clear that almost everyone is a potential victim, suspect, or both. The townspeople, as they are interviewed in the present day by the police, add something between an unreliable narration and a bitchy Greek chorus to proceedings.
