Big Little Lies Season 2 Episode 3 Spoilers and Recap [LIVE UPDATES]

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Big Little Lies season 2 episode 3, titled “The End of the World,” airs tonight on HBO. The synopsis for tonight’s episode reads: “Mary Louise tries to get closer to Jane; Renata focuses her wrath on Principal Nippal; Madeline is forced to confront her issues at couples therapy; Celeste struggles with her memories of Perry.” (Warning: Spoilers Ahead!)

Tonight’s episode will pick up where “Tell Tale Hearts” left off; for those who need a quick recap from last week, episode 2 saw Mary Louise confront Celeste about the fact that she was planning to leave him the same night he “slipped,” and died, while Ed found out about Madeline’s affair and Renata is about to lose everything after her husband was arrested for fraud. Celeste and Jane informed Ziggy and the twins that they are half-brothers and Jane opened up to Ziggy about his real father. Mary Louise refused to believe that Perry could be capable of raping Jane or abusing Celeste, and Bonnie is still trying to cope with the guilt of killing Perry.

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The episode opens with a flashback to the night Bonnie pushed Perry down the stairs. It’s an emotional, quiet scene, as Bonnie mulls over the incident in her head. Viewers get a quick glimpse of how all five women reacted immediately after Perry’s death, which we didn’t get to see in the season 1 finale.

Bonnie watches as her mother sings to her daughter, before the scene cuts over to Madeline admitting to a therapist that she “f–ked up” when she cheated on Ed. They are both attending couple’s therapy together, and seeing the same therapist that Celeste was seeing when she was trying to leave Perry. Ed says that he has been nothing but devoted to Madeline and doesn’t understand why she cheated on him. They have an intense conversation with the therapist about why Madeline didn’t go to college, and why her first husband left her. Madeline was getting visibly irritated by her questions before the scene cuts to Bonnie on the beach, remembering a conversation with her mother when she was just a child. It’s an intense scene, and shows Bonnie’s mother deliberately holding her underwater to teach her how to hold her breath and swim.

The scene cuts over to Madeline, who is sitting in a car with Celeste and talking about how she caught her father cheating on her mother. They talk about how Celeste doesn’t feel like she is over Perry and that she doesn’t feel like a good mother now that he is gone.

“Life just feels colorless now, it just feels flat and dull. As dead as he is, I sometimes think I am deader,” Celeste says.

GettyCeleste and Perry Wright’s relationship on HBO’s hit drama series “Big Little Lies” is tumultuous, violent and fraught with mental, physical and sexual abuse.

Mary Louise finally confronts Jane about Ziggy and asks her to submit her son to a paternity test. Mary Louise is trying to convince her to get a blood test, and accuses Jane of over-exaggerating what happened with Perry when she admits that Perry was the only man she was ever with. Mary Louise says “that you remember,” and says she is trying to squash the idea that her son was a rapist and an abuser.

Suddenly Renata’s daughter is rushed to hospital after having an anxiety attack at school. Renata takes some of her stress out on the teacher who brought her to the hospital as well as the doctor who treated her. The doctor tells her that the entire family should consider counseling because their stress is taking its toll on their daughter. A therapist comes to visit her daughter and informs Renata and her husband that Emmabell/Annabella is worried about climate change and the end of the world, as well as her father going to jail and her mother’s stress.

The next scene shows Jane having a date with the awkward guy she works with, who is drilling the waitress on where the fish he is about to order comes from. Jane appears smitten with him regardless, until the scene cuts to Mary Louise talking to the detective working her son’s death. She asks her if she truly believes that her son just slipped, or if she thinks there is something else going on with his case.

Celeste goes back to her therapist, who believes Celeste should move forward and not cling to the loving memories she has of Perry. She suggests that Celeste “misses the war,” who disagrees and says that she is just trying to remember the good in Perry.

The scene cuts back to Jane’s awkward date, who she decides to inform that she has a kid. Her date says he wants to meet Ziggy and then tries to lean in and kiss her, but she jumps back in fear. She tells him she just needs to stay in neutral for a while, and he agrees that they can take it slow.

Mary Louise then creeps up on Jane and Ziggy as she is getting him in the car after watching a video of Perry with the twins. The video must have brought out the grandmother in her, so she sought out Jane once again. Jane decides to sit down with her and chat, and Mary Louise shows her pictures of Perry’s brother when he was little. She asks Jane if she can be in Ziggy’s life, who says she needs to mull the idea over for a while. Mary Louise decides to tell Jane how “tender and gentle” Perry was when he was little, and Jane says he “grew up to be neither.” Mary Louise then asks who initiated the encounter between the two, and Mary Louise just can’t believe that Perry could have raped Jane. She asks if Perry could have “misinterpreted” Jane’s signals, to which she tells her how violent the encounter actually was, and she was screaming at him to get off her while he held her down. Mary Louise begs Jane to tell her that she saw good in Perry before he raped her.

Renata has an awkward encounter with Mary Louise when she goes to Madeline’s job to vent about the teacher and principal at her daughter’s school. Mary Louise confronts Renata about there the night Perry died. Renata then has a conversation with her husband about how she has changed recently (probably around the time that Perry died) which is impacting Emmabella and stressing her out.

The Monterey Five attends a climate change seminar at Otter Bay school, and Madeline is called up to speak at the podium. She has an emotional speech about there “aren’t many happy endings” and all the parents need to stop lying to their children about how life really is. “Life is an illusion and things don’t work out sometimes. We can’t tell them partial truth, we need to tell them the whole truth,” she says, as she breaks down sobbing.

Celeste returns home to find Mary Louise snooping through her bathroom cabinets. She claims she has been having trouble sleeping and makes a snide comment about the amount of drugs and pills Celeste has in her bathroom. She tells her she needed the pain killers for every time Perry kicked her.

Jane has yet another awkward encounter with her new love interest, who tells her he won’t try to kiss her, but they hug and start dancing instead. Celeste watches an old video of Perry who had sent her a sweet goodnight recording. Madeline remembers her affair with the theater director, Bonnie walks down the beach, and Jane continues to dance with her coworker but starts crying. Celeste decides to masturbate to the video of Perry and the episode ends.

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