Big Little Lies Recap: She Knows

Previously on Big Little Lies we left off with Celeste doing a drum solo to the memory of her dead husband so we gotta get straight into it. What the fuck is happening next in Monterey, California? Well, lemme tell you. We pick up with another flashback of the night that haunts them all, as Madeline lays in bed recalling Bonnie pushing Perry down the stairs and Madeline telling everyone the story they’ll tell the cops. It’s a brief scene, so you gotta question its purpose and realize that shit’s gonna come back like I Know What You Did Last Summer. Madeline’s feeling guilt and that’s gonna start to be exploited sooner than later. Can’t be out here being a reluctant accessory to murder, no sir. These hearts ain’t hard enough.

Jane and Renata are with Madeline out back of the house while Madeline’s tryna take the edge off with an organic non-GMO gluten-free cigarette. The kids are inside making jack-o-lanterns and, of course, one of Celeste’s twins is busy stabbing his pumpkin. Jane asks Renata what time she’s throwing the party for Amabella and Renata tells her it’s gonna be on the early side at 2 o’clock because she’s gotta hit up bankruptcy court after her husband drove them into the poor house. Jane like, why the fuck you still with him? and Renata breaks it down, how women stay through the worst of the fuck shit because that’s just what they’re supposed to do. They lie, we stay; they steal, we stay; they cheat (no offense, Madeline) (none taken), we stay. Speaking of stay…