Renata, Madeline, Celeste, Jane, and Bonnie, or "The Monterey Five," as they're now known, managed to attain quite a lot in seven episodes. Bonnie specially. She actually finished some things off.

Before Big Niggling Lies's second season begins on Sun—this time, with added Meryl Streep goodness—here'southward a quick review of what happened in season one.

Perry Wright is very dead.

At the outset of the season one finale, Celeste (Nicole Kidman) was finally ready to exit her calumniating husband, Perry (Alexander Skarsgård). She'd prepared an apartment for herself and her twins, and was planning to make her move after the Trivia Dark fundraiser.

But just before they left for the result—all decked out in Audrey Hepburn and Elvis Presley garb—Perry told Celeste that he'd learned of her secret apartment. This fix the stage for what was to be ane hell of a party.

A serial of confrontations, apologies, and confessions atomic number 82 four of the women—Celeste, Madeline (Reese Witherspoon), Jane (Shailene Woodley), and Renata (Laura Dern)—to converge near some unnecessarily steep stairs. Perry soon arrived, chasing after Celeste. Jane, who's but seeing Perry for the first fourth dimension, recognizes him as her rapist. The whole group began to fight with Perry when...

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Bonnie did it.

Fans didn't get to run into all that much of Bonnie (Zoë Kravitz) in flavour ane, but she definitely had a big moment at the terminate. Bonnie saw Perry yanking at Celeste's arm during the party, and followed subsequently him, concerned. When she came upon the anarchy near the stairs, she ran straight at Perry, shoving him over the cliff.

Bonnie's other principal role in the show was to mediate talks between Madeline and Nathan (James Tupper), Bonnie'southward electric current spouse and Madeline's ex. At times, Madeline and Nathan's girl Abigail (Darby Camp) seemed to prefer Bonnie's manner of parenting to Madeline'southward, which didn't exactly ease the tension between the families. Even so...

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Reese Witherspoon as Madeline in Big Little Lies.

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Madeline and Abigail fabricated up.

For a while, Madeline and Abigail's mother-daughter relationship seemed doomed. Tensions were escalating at home, leading Abigail to move in with Nathan and Bonnie.

They finally had a quantum when Madeline revealed that, contrary to Abigail's agreement, her mother wasn't perfect. Madeline admitted to her daughter that she'd been adulterous on her second husband, Ed (Adam Scott) with a managing director at the community theater.

But not everyone's family relationships became simpler, since...

Jane knows that information technology was Perry that raped her—as does Celeste.

That makes Jane'south son Ziggy a half-brother to Celeste's twins, Josh and Max. It too binds Jane and Celeste together as victims of Perry's abuse. We'll see how the 2 women and their children grapple with this in season two. Likewise...

It was Max that bullied Amabella, not Ziggy.

Color Renata surprised.

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