If you're not watching Big Little Lies, get on it already. The HBO series is so far proving one of the most watched shows of the year and has one of the most impressive female casts we've ever had on a TV series, with Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, and Shailene Woodley all starring.
The show still has a couple episodes left over on Sky Atlantic, so we won't spoil it, but it was always said the seven-part series would be a one-off, mainly because it was adapted from a book by Liane Moriarty, and well, she had only wrote that one story about the ladies of Monterey County.
However, the Australian author told the Sydney Morning Herald this week that she was in fact open to continuing the show but that she would write it for TV as opposed to penning another novel. And it seems the producers are also keen: "I have started to think about ways this could continue. The producers have asked me to see if I can come up with some ideas.
"I’m absolutely open to it because, once I started thinking, it was too much fun to see what I could do and to see these characters again," she said. "And there’s definitely places you can go … I think everybody is pretty keen. They all loved working together but I think the thing is the story has to be right. So if it’s right, and if David E. Kelley is happy to get the screenplay right, then I think that’ll do it."
Reese Witherspoon has already been rallying her fans on Facebook to get Liane to do another season, although director Jean-Marc Vallee has said "it's a one-time deal" but maybe with the right script?
We'll have to wait and see, but a second season is certainly looking more likely than it did.
Liane Moriarty with Reese Witherspoon.
