HBO boss: We went to great lengths to make sure Big Little Lies Season 2 could and should be done

Vulture

“Everybody approached it from a place of love and care (for) these characters and this property, and again, with a little dose of skepticism along the way,” says HBO programming chief Casey Bloys. He emphasized that Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon are too busy to do another season if it wasn’t worth it. “It was done, in my mind, for the right reason,” says Bloys. “They set a really high bar, and I think everybody involved believes it’s either going to hit that bar and exceed it, or we wouldn’t do it. We didn’t start with, ‘We must do this.’”

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