We’re more than halfway through season two of Big Little Lies, and I have to ask: Who even are the men on this show? Did you know there were men on this show? Last night the second annual Amabella’s birthday-party episode aired, and while I was struck by the glitz and glamour of the Monterey…
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I once thought I’d fallen in love with an adorable lawyer who started chatting with me while we waited at a crosswalk in Manhattan. I felt an immediate spark, and after we exchanged numbers, we planned our first date without ever bringing up our ages. A week later, somewhere between one and four glasses of…
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Hearing that your dead son was a serial abuser is a lot for a mother to process; hopefully, after having some time, Mary Louise will be less reactive and defensive with Celeste. This scene made me think about a terrible experience of my own. In college, a man at a party asked me to stay…
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The return of HBO’s Big Little Lies is a gift to us all for many reasons: the drama, the music, the incredibly savage levels of shade, the real estate porn, and, yes, the memes. Sunday night’s season two premiere offered up a spoil of riches for the Internet to latch onto, like Shailene Woodley dancing…
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There is so much on the line going into Big Little Lies season two. If you somehow forgot, season one ended with—spoiler warning—Bonnie (Zoë Kravitz) killing Perry (Alexander Skarsgård) by pushing him down a flight of stairs, and the other Monterrey moms covering it up. So on top of all the problems these women were…
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I love Renata Klein (Laura Dern) from Big Little Lies so much that I dressed up as her for Halloween in 2017. That’s not a joke or an exaggeration. When the time came around to pick a costume, only one person—or should I say legend—came to mind: Renata, Renata, Renata. Naturally, I pulled out all…
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