The Escapist Full Movie Part 1
Big Little Lies' Is Much More Than Escapist Fare. Spoilers ahead for Sunday night’s episode of Big Little Lies. While Big Little Lies has been mostly well- received, the critics who don’t care for the HBO drama about parental politics in Monterey County have dinged the show based on a lot of the same perceived flaws. They find the Greek chorus of community commentators ridiculous and unnecessary (that one I get), and the amount of privilege the main characters enjoy off- putting (kind of get that also). Many of them, a fair number of whom are male, also use the same words to describe this series: trashy (that one comes up even in positive reviews), cliché, and soapy.
Soapy, in particular, has been used a lot in connection with Big Little Lies. This bugs me, partly because I don’t think it’s accurate — BLL is grounded too much in reality, albeit a highly dramatic version of it, to truly feel like a soap opera — but also because it sounds so dismissive. Showtime Full Nancy Drew Online Free. There’s something about comparing a show that happens to focus on mothers to a genre historically aimed at housewives, and used as shorthand for TV we should not take seriously, that reeks of gender condescension. Is there an escapist element to this show, and a certain pleasure that’s derived from watching Reese Witherspoon wage war with Laura Dern while wielding Disney’s Frozen on Ice as a weapon? Oh my God, yes. I would still find Big Little Lies enjoyable as hell if that’s all it was. But this show is more than just rich, helicopter- mom catfights. It goes deeper, and packs more of a wallop, precisely because of scenes like the one in Sunday’s episode, “Push Comes to Shove,” that takes place between Reese Witherspoon’s Madeline and Nicole Kidman’s Celeste.
The scene I refer to takes place in the front seat of Madeline’s car, after the two women have just left a meeting with the town’s mayor over the “controversial” production of Avenue Q. We can’t have puppets fucking in Monterey,” says the mayor in one of the many delicious lines this series ladles out, low- key, like it can dish soup this hot all day.)During the meeting Renata (Dern), who spearheaded a petition drive to cancel the show, sucks up to the mayor, slyly reminds everyone present that she’s on the planning board, and suggests that the local theater should stage a nice, agreeable production, like The Sound of Music, instead.
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