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Big Little Lies - Season 1
Set in an idyllic seaside California town, the series tells the tale of three mothers of first graders, whose apparently perfect lives unravel to the point of murder. Stress leads to anger and anger turns to danger.
5 August 1976, San Jose, California, USA
10 February 1967, Saint John's Health Center, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, USA
17 January 1962, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
5 August 1977, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
18 August 1974, San Francisco, California, USA
17 February 1953, Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA
4 August 1965, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
1 December 1969, Troy, New York, USA
April 07, 2017
The miniseries does the compelling work of looking at each woman as a person whose identity is forged at this busy intersection of possibilities, obligations, and roads not taken.
April 20, 2017
By shunning the lie of a perfect womanhood, Big Little Lies suggest that perfection can be replaced by something better: wholeness.
February 06, 2017
The great thing about Big Little Lies is: The murder is almost beside the point. The vicious battle for power and status waged between the Monterey moms is gripping enough, and serves as a showcase for some fantastic female performances.
February 21, 2017
This is "Very, Very Desperate Housewives," at least on the surface. But the top-notch cast keeps the mystery simmering.
April 12, 2017
[Underneath] the dark comedy and the whodunnit -- this is also a look at motherhood in all its confusing, joyful and guilt-inducing complexity.
April 25, 2017
The genius of Big Little Lies is that it is not -- primarily, at least -- a satire. Nor is it really a crime thriller. Instead it uses the apparatus of these forms to deliver something far more personal.
February 21, 2017
Gorgeously shot, neatly directed and beautifully acted from start to finish, Big Little Lies is an achievement in almost every way.
February 21, 2017
The basic structure is compelling enough -- viewers don't even know who the identity of the murder victim is through much of the series, and the layered performances keep us in flux over who we'd like to kill off, and who we wish would do the killing.
March 17, 2017
You've never seen child actors so beautiful, nor kitchens so vast, not on British television, at any rate. But once your vision has adjusted, it is, I must admit, almost fun.
March 31, 2017
An intriguing mystery, a stonking cast and a poignant performance by Reese Witherspoon look like making Big Little Lies appointment viewing for the next couple of months.
