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The second season presents a new series of powerful drama, as Renata faces a different course of her life when Gordon comes down to a legal and Korean problem that asks Jane a new question about the 'practice' date. On the other hand, Celeste opened to Mary Louise for her relationship with Perry in those days, especially after a difficult treatment session with Dr. Rysman, and Pony's mother arrives again, and Ed faces a new path towards Madeleine around a set of secrets.
As usual, it's an occasionally dizzying jumble of tones, but I enjoy its ability to swing between farce and trauma, from scene to scene, with such casual grace.
There's drama to be found in such interpersonal turmoil to be sure, but Episode 4 was too predictable, too reticent, and, ultimately, too far-fetched for its own good.
The women of Big Little Lies are not doing very well. In fact, things were going so badly on this week's episode, She Knows, that you could cut the tension with a pumpkin-carving knife.
The midpoint of this midseason episode of Big Little Lies hits its apex right where it should: Amabella's '70s disco party. It heightens the tension by putting all of our getting-more-anxious-by-the-minute characters in the same room.
Where the previous episode moved too slowly, Big Little Lies Season 2 Episode 4, She Knows, packs quite a bit into the hour-long glimpse at the lives of the Monterey Five.
She Knows brings us past the halfway point of this seven-episode second season, and anyone still skeptical about the merits of continuing the Emmy-winning limited series clearly doesn't enjoy watching six of our most gifted actresses do their thing.
In episode four of his series writer David E Kelley played a particularly skilful trompe l'oeil act of dazzling us with the shiny surfaces of the world he portrays while at the same time throwing his characters down its hidden cracks.
In She Knows, the lingering trauma of Perry's death looms large in the form of the ever-suspicious Mary Louise, but it is far from the only problem Renata, Madeline, Bonnie, Celeste, and Jane have to deal with.
This season, with Perry Wright's shadowy death serving as a catalyst for the other characters' erratic behavior, the show has smartly dedicated much of its run time to exploring the Monterey Five's strained relationships.