Seize your favorite cardigan, pour your self a big glass of crimson wine, and prepare to stare wistfully on the horizon – as a result of Huge Little Lies could also be returning for a 3rd season. A brand new instalment of HBO’s Emmy-winning drama collection starring Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Zoë Kravitz, and Shailene Woodley is reportedly within the works, with Kidman teasing that she and Witherspoon have been “texting every single day” about growing a brand new chapter of David E. Kelley’s buzzy homicide thriller primarily based on Liane Moriarty’s 2014 novel.

“We’re at work on it,” Kidman instructed Selection. “And there’s a timeline and we’re doing it.” Witherspoon confirmed that she and Kidman have been arduous at work reuniting the actual moms of Monterey. “We’re engaged on it,” she instructed the publication on the Golden Globes crimson carpet. “Nic and I are engaged on it loads.”

How did Huge Little Lies go from DOA to a possible third season? Allow us to clarify.

Wait, wasn’t Huge Little Lies presupposed to be a restricted collection?

Initially, it was. Like its HBO sister The White Lotus, Huge Little Lies was initially developed and billed as a restricted collection when it premiered on the community on February 19, 2017. However that’s as a result of the community apparently didn’t realise what successful it might have on its palms. Huge Little Lies was large each critically and commercially, profitable 5 Emmys, together with excellent supporting actor in a restricted collection (Alexander Skarsgård), excellent director of a restricted collection (Jean-Marc Vallée), excellent supporting actress in a restricted collection (Dern), excellent lead actress in restricted collection (Kidman), and excellent restricted collection.

The next December, it was introduced that Huge Little Lies could be returning for a second season.

How was the second season?

Effectively… not nice. Issues obtained off to a powerful begin when HBO introduced that the extremely vibe-appropriate Meryl Streep could be becoming a member of the forged in season two because the mother-in-law of Kidman’s Celeste. However manufacturing was notoriously bumpy. Director Andrea Arnold was initially employed to direct the seven-episode second season however ultimately left the manufacturing “heartbroken” on account of artistic variations between herself and Vallée. Vallée took the reins again, directing the remainder of the episodes and re-editing episodes Arnold had already shot, in order that they’d higher match his fashion and aesthetic.

Regardless of the drama, Huge Little Lies’ second season premiered on June 9, 2019. Whereas nonetheless buzzy and well-liked with viewers, the second season was much less critically acclaimed than the primary. Season two was solely nominated for 2 Emmys — Streep and Dern scored nods for excellent supporting actress in a drama collection — and misplaced each. Whereas the destiny of the collection was within the air, it weathered an sudden tragedy when Vallée died in 2021 at his chalet in Québec Metropolis on the age of 58. The next 12 months, Kravitz stated that Huge Little Lies was successfully “carried out” after the lack of their director. “I can’t think about occurring with out him,” she stated.

So, how did season three of Huge little Lies get off the bottom?

In response to Kidman, her daughter really had one thing to do with it. In an interview for Vogue Australia, Kidman stated she lately watched the collection together with her 15-year-old daughter, Sunday, who instantly grew to become obsessive about the present.