“Big Little Lies” Season 3 Officially in the Works
HBO is bringing back Big Little Lies for a third season.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith co-creator and showrunner Francesca Sloane is on board for season 3 and will write the first episode as well as executive produce alongside creator David E. Kelley, Nicole Kidman, and Reese Witherspoon, Variety reports. Kidman and Witherspoon will once again lead the cast.
Sloane’s hit Amazon Prime series, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, has been delayed indefinitely, and the news that she’s boarded Big Little Lies follows her two-year overall deal that she signed with HBO.
Fans have been waiting for season three for a while—season two’s finale aired on July 21, 2019—and we left the Monterey Five at the moment they’d decided to confess to Perry’s (Alexander Skarsgård) murder. The five are made up of Celeste Wright (Kidman), Madeline Martha Mackenzie (Witherspoon), Jane Chapman (Shailene Woodley), Renata Klein (Laura Dern), and Bonnie Carlson (Zoe Kravitz). Season two also ended with Celeste winning her custody battle against Perry’s mother, Mary Louise (Meryl Streep). Needless to say, there was plenty of narrative meat left on the bone, with the Monterey Five’s decision to reveal Bonnie’s complicity (she’s the one who pushed Perry to his death) and all of their lying and evasion about his murder to the police.
The show was an instant hit when it debuted in 2017, and its Emmy wins included Best Limited Series, Best Actress in a Limited Series (Kidman), and Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series (Dern). The first season was based on the novel of the same name by Liane Moriarty, while the second season was based on original material by the author. She’s set to deliver a sequel novel in 2026.
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Featured image: LOS ANGELES, CA – NOVEMBER 11: Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon attend the HBO “Big Little Lies” FYC at the Hammer Museum on November 11, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by FilmMagic/FilmMagic for HBO )
