Good news, Big Little Lies fans.
Meryl Streep – AKA the biggest name in Hollywood/AKA the woman with a record number of 21 Academy Award nominations – will be joining an already star-studded cast in the sleepy beachside town of Monterey.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Streep will be playing the character Mary Louise Wright; the mother-in-law of Celeste Wright (Nicole Kidman) and the deceased Perry Wright (Alexander Skarsgard). It’s thought that Mary Louise will appear in the coastal town, searching for answers about what led to the death of her son.
Season two is expected to drop sometime in 2019 at the earliest. Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman will return as lead actresses and executive producers of the series.
So… can it just be 2019 already, please?
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I'm not looking forward to it at all. I thought BLL was perfect on it's own with a great ending that wrapped up the stories of the women. I liked that we didn't know exactly what was coming next and that it was open for speculation. I understand that some would like to see the characters again - and the actresses were wonderful - I just hope it doesn't become a soap opera.
As much as I adored both the book and series of Big Little Lies I feel that it was perfect in its entirety as a single season. Having said that - I will definitely be watching, and hoping they don’t go off on some weird tangential story lines. I really wish they had left it in Pirrawee on the Northern Beaches rather than California’s Monterrey as well.