
it's a wonderful lie.
Plot outline
Personal notes
Cast
- Reese Witherspoon
- Nicole Kidman
- Shailene Woodley
- Zoë Kravitz
- Adam Scott
- Laura Dern
- James Tupper
- Alexander Skarsgård
- Jeffrey Nordling
- Iain Armitage
- Darby Camp
- Kathryn Newton
- Cameron Crovetti
- Nicholas Crovetti
- Chloe Coleman
- Ivy George
- Larry Sullivan
- Merrin Dungey
- Kelen Coleman
- P.J. Byrne
- Gia Carides
- Robin Weigert
- Santiago Cabrera
- Larry Bates
- Nelly Buchet
- Meryl Streep
- Douglas Smith
- Sarah Sokolovic
- Kathreen Khavari
- David Monahan
- Joel Spence
- Sarah Baker
- Sarah Burns
- Hong Chau
- Joseph Cross
- Crystal Fox
- Virginia Kull
- Khalilah Joi
- Martin Donovan
- Parker Croft
- Kimmy Shields
- Denis O'Hare
- Mykal-Michelle Harris
- Tim True
- Benai Boyd
- Danielle Judovits
- Chris Kauffmann
- Ryan O'Connor
- Richard Israel
- Becky Ann Baker
- Mo McRae
- Poorna Jagannathan
- Eve Gordon
- Keisuke Hoashi
- Stephen Graybill
- Eliza Shin
- Stacie Greenwell
- Angela Ai
- Anthony Zediker
- Molly Hagan
- Christopher Backus
- Goreti Da Silva
- Mark Adair-Rios
- Asher McDonell
- Sunday Rose Urban
- Faith Margaret Kidman-Urban
- Brayden McDonell
- Jeryl Prescott
- John Marshall Jones
- Chad Mountain
- Duvier Poviones
- Carrie Wampler
- James Trevena
- Travis Schuldt
- Libby Letlow
- Mark Whitten
- Samantha Baugnon
- Mia Coleman
- Annie Fitzgerald
- Patrick St. Esprit
- Teddy Blum
- Michael Andrew Baker
- Linda Burzynski
- Adam Cropper
- Maryfrances Careccia
- Mike Bradecich
- Howard Chan
- Feodor Chin
- Grant Davis
- Kerri Kenney
- Elizabeth Liang
- Chris Aquilino
- Charles Maceo
- Darielle Dorsey
- Lon Gowan
- Lola Langusta
- Ron Brooks
- Kayvon Esmaili
- Will Hawkes
- Lauren Lakis
- Katie Featherston
- Hartlyn Hilsman
- Michael Laskin
- Preston Mui
- Scott Alan Smith
- Maverick Thompson
- Lacy Camp
- Kate Rene Gleason
- Jennifer Lafleur
- Ashley Gonzales
- Harry Irby
- Bellina Logan
- Bruce Nozick
- Paul Nygro
- Taylor Treadwell
- Leonard Kelly-Young
- Benjamin Plessala
- Talia Toms
- Angela Al
- Melinda Ratner
- Paull Walia
- Earl Young
- Lauren Glazier
- Amanda Reed
- Jessica Villalba
- Antwon M. Young
- Jerome Holloway
- Alan Godshaw
- Lorenzo Rankins
- Davin Ringer
- Deb Snyder
- Rob Banks
- Mark Heidelberger
- Adrian L. Jackson
- Anil Kumar
- Daniel Yost
- Larisa Kazanskaya
- Eliot Lorango
- Michelle Lenhardt
- Christopher Stills
- Talon Tears
- Anne Dereaux
- Wendy Wang
- Jessica Reagans
- Jean-Phi Goncalves
- Conor O'Brien
- Daniel Agee
- Jimmy Valley
- Claire Lawton
- Benjamin Valic
- Asheesh Williams
- Carrie I. Dodd
- Jeni Jones
- Celeste Cook
- Carson Ferry
- McKenna Ferry
- Jon-Mark Hurley
- Sean Leo
- Kasey Perlinger
- Sheena Peña
- Thomas W. Stewart
- Issam Tahan
- Tony Toste
- Tiffany Tynes
- Jeremy Zaugg
- Kevyn Bashore
- Laura Linda Bradley
- Dawn Frances
- Kevin Gardner
- Jonathan Grebe
- Mark Krenik
- Homero Lopez
- Luke Matheis
- Veronika Mindal
- Anthony Molinari
- Melissa Oliver
- David M Sandoval Jr.
- Heather Simpson
- Bruce M. Stockert
- Amy Tolsky
Plots
The apparently perfect lives of upper-class mothers, at a prestigious elementary school, unravel to the point of murder when a single-mother moves to their quaint Californian beach town.
When Madeline and Celeste take new-in-town single mom Jane under their wing, none of them realize how the arrival of Jane and her inscrutable little boy will affect them all. Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, schoolyard scandal, and the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.
A darkly comedic tale of murder and mischief in the tranquil beachfront town of Monterey, Calif. Amidst doting moms, successful husbands, beautiful children, and stunning homes exists a community fueled by rumors and divided into haves and have-nots, exposing fractured relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, and friends and neighbors. Told through the eyes of three mothers -- Madeline, Celeste and Jane -- the series' narrative explores society's myths regarding perfection and its romanticization of marriage, sex, parenting and friendship.