Alison Herman TV Critic The Australian author Liane Moriarty provided the source material for the first season of “Big Little Lies,” one of recent TV’s great success stories.
Since that then-limited series exploded in 2017, dominating the discourse with a supernova of star power, conspicuous consumption and domestic strife, producers have continued to mine Moriarty’s catalog in search of more gold.
Thus far, Hollywood has come up short. The second season of “Big Little Lies,” which Moriarty herself conceived with screenwriter David E.
Kelley, was a disappointment; Hulu’s take on “Nine Perfect Strangers,” another Moriarty novel, was a collection of big names and backstories in search of a compelling throughline.
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