{"id":2148,"date":"2017-04-19T16:16:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T16:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scadradio.org\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2018-03-29T16:36:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T16:36:54","slug":"2148","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/2017\/04\/19\/2148\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Little Lies: Big Little Season Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Opening every episode with Michael Kiwanuka\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cold Little Heart <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has me swooning before I even know the names of the characters of the show. Even if first impressions show no sign of promise, the pleasant surprise of a beautifully crafted soundtrack warms my heart and asks me to continue on. Thankfully though, Jean-Marc Vallee (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dallas Buyers Club)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and HBO gave their viewers a bit more than a drab sob story from melodramatic housewives from Monterey. That is Monterey, California, which is a fitting adaptation from the book&#8217;s original setting in Australia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now I have not read the book (yet), written by Liane Moriarty, although I want to now. Last I checked it should arrive at my doorstep in 2-3 business days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first episode is titled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Somebody\u2019s Dead. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At first its forwardness shocked me, but the shock peaked my interest even further. I was nearly hooked from the very beginning, and it certainly helped to have the two perfect epsiodes to kick off the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I want to give a loud applause to the star-ridden cast of the series as well. How Vallee was supposed to handle all this star power was a constant concern for me leading up to, and honestly following me after the first few episodes, but I felt everyone was able to work very well together. I can say that I\u2019m a fan of most of the work these people have done, and yes, even Shailene Woodley. I gave her a chance in this show and I was pleasantly surprised. Her performance certainly was not Emmy worthy, but I felt that she owned her role as Jane Chapman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The relationship between Perry (Skarsgard) and his wife Celeste (Kidman) was one of the most uncomfortable and disturbing depictions of an abusive relationship on screen that I have witnessed in recent viewing. It appears that, after reading other reviews, I am not alone in this category. The relationship contributes an unsettling but nearly undetectable sub-plot in the beginning, but later, without spoiling the show, becomes an essential cog in the machine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In closing, I was a huge fan of the series ending. Those who read the book before the show may have a different opinion, as with most cases of an adaptation\u2019s climax and ending. With respect (without spoiling the show) the climax felt odd. I took it as this epic crescendo with a hard smack falling into an anti-climax, with both elements intertwined into one to find some sort of resolution that, in reality for the wives and widows of Monterey, never comes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2152\" src=\"http:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bridge-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1957\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bridge-1.png 1957w, https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bridge-1-300x38.png 300w, https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bridge-1-768x99.png 768w, https:\/\/scadradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/bridge-1-1024x131.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1957px) 100vw, 1957px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4.9 out of 5 Bixby Creek Bridges, because of the ending.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening every episode with Michael Kiwanuka\u2019s Cold Little Heart has me swooning before I even know the names of the characters of the show. 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