'Big Little Lies season 2 has blissfully gone the opposite way of The Handmaid's Tale, in that it has distinctly leaned into its own world rather than trying to say something about ours.'
. Yeah, he got through too. There is a creeping sense that maybe we should have been paying attention to the highjacking of the federal judiciary instead of watching so much television.The Handmaid’s Tale
in that it has distinctly leaned into its own world rather than try to say something about ours. Not that it doesn’t still get at some uncomfortably relevant, horribly intimate issues its women viewers will understand more than the men. In the wake of the death of Celeste’s husband, Perry , who abused her and raped Jane, all of the women are grappling with the fallout, legally and emotionally. Celeste even misses Perry despite memories of his violent, sadistic behavior.
But my overall reaction to the first few episodes of the new season made available by HBO was laughter rather than horror, and what a relief it was. The intersection between the luxury lives and high-stakes problems of the Monterey Five continues in a long tradition of the best camp murder mysteries, in which beautiful, jewel-adorned women shriek their heads off and look great doing it.
It's more than refreshing that creator David E. Kelley, producers Witherspoon and Kidman, and author Liane Moriarty chose the whodunit route rather than something grittier that might have engendered more think pieces but would have been 10 times less fun to watch. Witherspoon and Laura Dern’s renewed hysterical madness in their respective roles as alpha bitches is the epitome of hyperreality, laying bare the rarefied class dynamics that make these women anything but relatable.
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