The third season of Big Little Lies has been a long time coming on HBO. There was even a time when Casey Bloys, who was HBO’s president of programming at the time, cast huge doubt that a third season could happen. Back in 2019, Bloys explained, “To me on the face of it, there’s no obvious place to go. There’s no obvious story. If they came to me and said, ‘We have the greatest take. Listen to this.’ I would certainly be open to it because I love working with them.”
Now, according to Variety, Reese Witherspoon herself has confirmed that a third season is currently in the making. Witherspoon recently made a guest appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, where she revealed,
We might be working on Season 3. Yeah, I mean, they’re writing it. It’s exciting too, just to get the gang back together and have everyone start talking about it. It’s really fun.”sponsored content
Witherspoon also explained how it has “been a minute” since the cast has seen each other. She pointed out how surreal it will be to reunite with the former child actors on the show, as they have now grown into teenagers. “It’s been about 10 years, maybe nine years?” she told Fallon. “All those little kids [who] were in second grade, they’re all teenagers now. And being a mom of a teenager, it’s a lot of big little lies.”
The second season began with many characters still processing the death Perry Wright (Alexander Skarsgård), and further explored “the malignancy of lies, the durability of friendships, the fragility of marriage and, of course, the vicious ferocity of sound parenting. Relationships will fray, loyalties will erode … the potential for emotional and bodily injury shall loom.” Jane (Shailene Woodley) attempted to build a new life for herself and Ziggy (Iain Armitage), with Renata (Laura Dern) finding herself faced with new challenges in her marriage. Bonnie (Zoë Kravitz) had been struggling with Perry’s death and forced to face the demons of her past. Meryl Streep played Perry’s mother, Mary Louise Wright, who comes to Monterey searching for answers and feeling concerned for the well-being of her grandchildren following the death of her son.
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