Sudden arrival of Streep raises the bar for a superior show

Meryl Streep has burst in among the fictional housewives of Monterey in season two of Big Little Lies (Sky Atlantic) introducing a full-blown, subtly threatening character from her first moments on screen

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Meryl Streep has burst in among the fictional housewives of Monterey in season two ofBig Little Lies(Sky Atlantic) introducing a full-blown, subtly threatening character from her first moments on screen. Streep has always had an almost ridiculous facility to totally inhabit a persona, and she does so again here as Mary Louise Wright, grieving ...