For all its beachside opulence and one-percenter mommy wars, Big Little Lies zoomed out when it counted. By the end of the first season (let's just forget the second one ever happened), the Monterey 5, as the central quintet came to be coined, were united in their retribution against a rapist and domestic abuser.
If all the wealth in coastal California couldn't shield those Eileen Fisher-wrapped women from patriarchy's ravages, what chance did women who have so much less stand?
Hulu's splashy new miniseries, Little Fires Everywhere, will most certainly garner innumerable comparisons to the similarly titled Big Little Lies.
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