BIG LITTLE LIES
HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET
Season 1 of Big Little Lies was all about discovering the secret – which, at the literal end of the miniseries, turned out to be who was killed, how the killing took place, and the identity of the killer. When David E. Kelley’s story adaptation proved so popular that it generated an order for a sequel, and the miniseries became a series, this new Season 2 has been all about those big little lies leaking out. And leaking, at first, from the mouths of babes. But now, the secrets, and the suspicions, are spreading, especially to the murder victim’s visiting mother, played with steely, quiet, threatening reserve by Meryl Streep.