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That Big Little Lies finale….

Warning: Be sure you have seen the season final before reading!

Warning: Be sure you have seen the season final before reading!

The first mesmerising and often disturbing season of Big Little Lies came to a close yesterday.

And what a knockout closer it was as we finally answered the question of who died, how they died and how everyone reacted.

Every episode was written by David E. Kelley and directed by Jean-Marc Vallee -and didn’t that just make all the difference?

But will there be more?

“One of the main questions everyone keeps asking us is is there going to be a season 2,” Reece Witherspoon recently wrote on Facebook. “We’ve been talking with the writer, and you guys should Facebook Liane Moriarty and tell her how much you want to see Big Little Lies 2. That would be good. She’s thinking about ideas, and so we would love to hear ideas.”

Jean-Marc Vallee has also spoken to the Hollywood Reporter about shooting the finale and whether there we can look forward to more.

What was shooting trivia night and the final scenes like?

That was the toughest shoot of my life! We shot trivia night for two weeks, 10 nights from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. It was so tough first shooting at night time and then covering all of this coverage. It was designed to show everybody is watching each other. I had to shoot this whole party from Madeline’s perspective, from Celeste’s perspective, Jane’s perspective and Bonnie and Renata’s. And then we had to do the guys. And at the same time, all of these other characters wondering and watching and then Joseph and Joseph’s wife. There was so much coverage to do. It was tough, tough, tough. But at the same time the set was so amazing. The characters were dressed up as all of these different Elvis’s and Audrey Hepburn’s. That was amazing to do. To see Alex Skarsgard dressed as the leather version of Elvis, and Nicole’s outfit and Reese was so funny and drunk. In the cutting room, the real challenge with all of this material was finding the right rhythm and pace for the whole thing. Who is looking at who and when and how and then the discovery of the flashback of Jane realizing that Perry is the rapist and then he recognizes Jane.

The last scene with the women being watched on the beach is open-ended. Reese recently mentioned there being talks for a season two and that author Liane Moriarty has some ideas of what that could look like. Would you want to direct a season two?

The detective doesn’t want to let go and that’s how we finish that. And we think, “Did they do the right thing? What will happen?” Now it’s up to the audience and their imagination to figure out. To do a season two, I’m not for it. Let’s move on and do something else! If there’s an opportunity to reunite with Reese, Nicole and these characters of course, I’ll be a part of it, but Big Little Lies One is a one-time deal. Big Little Lies Two? Nah. The end is for the audience to talk about. Imagine what you want to imagine and that’s it. We won’t give you a season two because it’s so good like this. Why spoil it?

9 Responses

  1. Completely agree – one season, a beginning, middle and end – that’s that. Need more TV like that rather than shows being renewed season after season until they fade away with no ending and the original premise disappearing as they move forward. So many shows I’ve watched a few seasons and let go when the story lines shift too far from the original premise or they just get too ridiculous.

  2. Also, if Nicole Kidman doesn’t win an Emmy for this show I will be very surprised. TV really agrees with her. The way she played Celeste was just outstanding.

  3. very predictable
    on another note do the shows have to be made here for the australian actors to qualify for the logies.
    for example nicole kidman can she qualify for the silver logie for most outstanding actor.i assume not

  4. Did not watch it. Read the book when it was published in 2014. Brilliant writer Liane Moriarty. ‘Truly Madly Guilty’ is even (if at all possible) better.

  5. The very best a series can be. 7 Episodes, 1 complete season, top class actors and story line..
    Wish there were more like this these rather than the usual drawn out season after season, having the life sucked out of an originally great show.
    Big Little Lies was excellent viewing. 9.5/10

  6. Was the best series of TV I have seen in years. was on the edge of my seat for the entire episode last night. Just amazing. Gripping.
    I tend to agree with Jean-Marc, I was left wanting more but I don’t think there is much in a second season. I would hate for them to start other unrelated storylines and then ruin it. Let it be and move on.

    1. I agree. Let it just be a limited series, perfect in its completion. If they try to milk the concept by producing more seasons, it’ll probably degenerate into a soap opera.

    2. Totally agree. It’s an amazing piece of television – leave it at that. I’d rather Reese’s production company make another series in a similar way from one of Liane Moriaty’s other books. A whole new set of characters.

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