HBO’s “Big Little Lies” probably won’t be returning for a third season, according to series cast member Zoe Kravitz.
The acclaimed first season of the series, based on Liane Moriarty’s novel, aired in 2017 on HBO and became a major sensation. What was planned as a limited series ended up scoring a renewal and returning with a less well-regarded (but still solid) second-season run in 2019.
Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley, Adam Scott, Santiago Cabrera, Merrin Dungey and Meryl Streep co-starred with Kravitz in the series about a group of women in Monterey, California, who become embroiled in a murder investigation.
The premium cabler hasn’t handed out any official word yet about the future of the series, but Kravitz said in a GQ video interview this week that a major reason we won’t see it return is the absence of first season director Jean-Marc Vallee who met an untimely death last year:
I don’t think it is [coming back]. We talked about doing a Season 3 a lot. Unfortunately, Jean-Marc Vallee, our incredible director, passed away this last year, which is heartbreaking. And I can’t imagine going on without him. He really was the visionary for that show. So, unfortunately, it’s done.”
TV megaproducer David E. Kelley, who wrote the series, said last year that getting the cast back together would be a “scheduling nightmare” and didn’t think it would happen.
