A storm’s brewin’ as BigLittleLies heads into the home stretch, as Celeste lawyers up, Bonnie faces her past, Ed drifts toward temptation, and all the kids unravel. Read Alan Sepinwall’s recap.
portions of the episode felt more vital than usual, in part due to their focus on her own role as someone’s child. It was implied in Season One that she’d come from an abusive home, which is how she could recognize Perry’s behavior at Trivia Night as something Celeste needed saving from. We’ve been getting flashes of her childhood memory since her mothercame to visit.
Madeline seems to get through to Ed a bit with her pledge that she’ll never cheat on him again, even if she screws up in many other ways. But when Ed goes out to a local bar, he runs into a very flirtatiousopenly watching them both, as we realize that the other parties in Madeline’s affair have chosen a more direct way to resolve their marital tension.
That whole final sequence, masterfully edited and beautifully scored to “Victory Dance” by My Morning Jacket, puts all the characters and their problems into a blender. Different vignettes are clearly happening at different times , but the swirl of images is a reminder that all these problems are connected and getting worse for those connections. No one can breathe. No one can escape.
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