Big Little Lies
Big Little Lies Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.5 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 8.6 | 8.5 | 9.4 | |
| S2 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 8.6 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.6 | 8.7 | |
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About
"Glossy soap opera with real teeth underneath"
Set among wealthy mothers in a picture-postcard California beach town, the show opens with a murder and then unwinds backward through the friendships, marriages, and secrets that led there. It's soapy on the surface but genuinely aches underneath, tackling domestic abuse, trauma, and class friction with more weight than the glossy visuals suggest. The pace is slow-burn prestige drama rather than thriller, carried almost entirely by a stacked cast of A-list actresses delivering some of their best screen work. It's gorgeous to look at, occasionally melodramatic, and surprisingly moving once the mystery framing falls away.
the ensemble cast delivering career-highlight performances in nearly every scene.
you want a fast-moving mystery rather than a slow character study wrapped around one.
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