Big Little Lies

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FUKEN good show. I recommend it.

 

Sat all the way through this. The mystery hooked me in, but I garnered very little satisfaction in anything leading up to the conclusion. The show was shot really well, and had some very good performances in it, but it was hard to care about any of these people.

It was vacuous. If we didn't have a murder mystery, I wouldn't have cared about it at all. Very different from "The Night Of", in which the conclusion to the mystery had much higher stakes, but was much less important in the scheme of the storytelling going on.

Then to top it all off, we get to the end, and it really wasn't a mystery at all. They just suckered us into thinking it was a mystery. Justice was served at the scene of the crime. Kumbaya motherfucker!

 

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So, worth watching or not?

 

I watched it all the way through, but I couldn't in good conscience recommend it to anybody else; unless you're a big fan of rich people problems, domestic abuse, cheating wives, and an entire cast of infuriatingly entitled characters.....with maybe one or two that could be considered redeemable.

If anybody remembers the show "The Slap", this is basically what that was, but set in Monterey and done a little more stylishly.

Anthony might like it, because he probably knows these people where he lives, in his "I'm rich bitch" circle.

 

It was good, very well acted and well shot, but the ending was a letdown.

Spoiler

Divergent girl moves all this way and happens to find the rapist in a small town of 30,000. And never happens to meet him before or even see him in a picture with Nicole Kidman on social media or whatever? He was a possessive abuser who knew who all of his wife’s friends were. Seemed like just a coincidence and plot device to wrap the series up nicely.

 

There's a "Spoiler" button on this site somewhere? That's the fucking mystery I want solved.