BIG LITTLE LIES
HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET
As this season of Big Little Lies has gotten deeper into its plot, Meryl Streep has gotten deeper into her role – and she’s now established her character of the grieving mother as a kind of conniving Columbo. She’s a woman who’s constantly underestimated, but who notices everything, and always has one last question to make the people around her uncomfortable. She, too, is working on a murder case – or at least she thinks so (and correctly, it should be added), while most everyone else accepts her son’s death as an accidental fall. And hey… she’s even got a Columbo-ish coat…