Big Little Lies Recap: Tell-Tale Hearts

We back in Monterey, California and things as messy as they ever been. If you need a recap of the season 2 premiere, you know where to find it, so let’s get into this. Celesete is driving, looking at the trees like she high as a kite, before smashing into a tree. Police is like, ma’am, you drunk? She wasn’t, but she tells Madeline that she took some pills to help her sleep and then teleported into her car and started driving, apparently. Then they see Bonnie “hiking” ’cause she been trying to outpace her demons for a thousand miles now.

Back in the 1% of the 1% side of town, Renata’s busy being Renata, talking about how she’s gonna be on the cover of the leading women’s magazine in the country. FBI rolls up and doesn’t give a federal fuck about her magazine cover though. They arrest her husband while she’s screaming and shit, feeling like Cersei when the walls came tumbling down. Meanwhile, Madeline drops off Celeste and runs into Mary Louise. Ding ding ding, Mary Louise versus Madeline, round 3! Mary Louise wins by decision and stays undefeated, while Jane is off on a trial date with Obvious Love Interest and he so direct that it’s equally adorable and strange. Back to Bonnie who’s barely holding it together, she’s driving her daughter around when the kid hits her with the intuition, like “are you and daddy getting a divorce? I noticed he doesn’t make you laugh anymore, and you look sullen and dead inside.” Bonnie tries to distract her with a dope ass soundtrack, and then s…

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