'While everyone expected a fabulous performance from the world’s greatest actress, Streep’s Mary Louise is a rare TV masterpiece,' writes LorraineAli
This post contains spoilers from Episode 6 of “Big Little Lies,” Season 2.
The series, about five women in an affluent community struggling to keep up appearances — and to cover up a murder — has struggled to reignite the spark of its award-winning first season. Back then, grade-school mothers Madeline Mackenzie , Celeste Wright , Renata Klein and Bonnie Carlson channeled most of their energy toward appearing as young, thin, rich and happily married as possible, no matter how miserable it made them.
Season 2 is less successful in its toggling among satire, melodrama and naked odes to “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.” In this context, the season’s least graceful character has become its saving grace, and she’s garnered more intrigue with each successive episode. Who knew until tonight that Mary Louise had the physical power to shove her apartment door shut on a woman half her age?
Though frumpy and awkward, she arrives on scene with the stealth of a phantom. She materializes at the most vulnerable of times, disarming her prey with librarian soft-speak, then targeting their weaknesses with the precision of a Special Ops sharpshooter.weird, a veritable freak among the other put-together ladies of Monterey.
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