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Big little liesThe fourth episode, "She Knows", marks Mary Louise's first salvo, threatening to Meryl Streep, and now her fifth episode, "Kill Me" directs the series to her incendiary confrontation and her climax: a battle for custody between Mary Louise and Celeste (Nicole Kidman) on the two young boys of Celeste.
While I'm salivating at the thought of watching Streep and Kidman face it, I do not know if I buy everything the series has sold this year regarding the rivalry between the two partners. I am especially skeptical that these women have never really considered advocating self-defense and that the police would not be a little understanding Bonnie who protects her friend from her violent husband, who is also a rapist.
But unresolved for the moment, the fight between Celeste and Mary-Louise is testimony to the biggest story of this season, showing how the Monterey Five and Mary-Louise react in a disparate and desperate way when they are threatened. Madeline can not solve her marital problems and can not be trusted. Renata's finances are burned. Bonnie finds no peace with the guilt of pushing Perry. Jane is struggling to open up to romantic relationships. And Celeste has the thorn at his side, that is his stepmother, Mary Louise.
The lie about Perry's murder took, one way or another, the power and autonomy of these women. And in "Kill Me" we see how Mary Louise, Celeste and a confrontation with Renata show the power play between these women.
The biggest question this season is why Mary Louise wants Celeste's kids
Mary Louise's strategy is simple: portray Celeste as a terrible and irresponsible mother, then move her children, her grandchildren, away from her daughter. What the series has left mysterious is why it does exactly that – a feeling expressed by Celeste's twins in this episode.
Mary Louise does not seem particularly fond of children and she feels she does not believe that Celeste is so mean as a mother, because she wants the court to believe him.
From what we've seen this season, especially in the third episode, with her interaction with Jane and her confrontation with Celeste in the fourth episode, she's more concerned about cleaning up her son's name and to do justice to his justice over Celeste.
Mary Louise believes that these women – Celeste and her group of friends – have killed her son. Mary Louise also thinks that the son she raised could never be a rapist and domestic abuser. Mary Louise thinks that if these women have lied about the murder of her son, they are also able to lie about the kind of monster he was.
Since the forces of order are in stalemate, Mary Louise now punishes Celeste as she intends: to take her children. It's the power that Mary Louise has on her and Mary Louise knows that if she takes the kids, Celeste's life will crumble.
Celeste goes to Renata, who is apparently her opposite: impetuous, audacious, frank. And to help Celeste, Renata sits down with Mary Louise.
Really, confrontation is a good time for fans to appreciate Laura Dern and Streep who are both trying to badert their dominance over each other in a fabulous home. But it also shows how much Mary Louise can be demanding, pointing out exactly how to dismantle Renata.
Mary Louise, channeling a bit of Streep's ice-cold character, Miranda Priestly, in The devil dresses in Prada, points out that there is no furniture in Renata's house. This is not a breathtaking sight, but it could be easy to get distracted by the beauty of Renata's home. Even without the furniture, it still has a magnificent view and breathtaking bones.
But Mary Louise was not distracted by Renata's fabulous life (like many people at Amabella's Halloween disco party), recalling how little remains of Renata.
Renata, in her conversations with her husband and the director of the school, links wealth to power and stability. She thinks her bankruptcy is a temporary problem in the system and has been reduced to nothing. Renata firmly believes that when she becomes rich again, she will crush her enemies and drink wine on a bone throne. She also thinks that if she is rich, she can make Amabella happy and give her a good life.
Wealth is the way Renata determines if her life is good and powerful. She is not wrong. The oracle Ariana Grande sang that "anyone who says that money can not solve your problems should not have enough money to solve it".
But Mary Louise did not seek to insult or make her feel weak. It is rather to introduce doubt into Renata's mind – not that she will not become rich again, but that even if she were rich, the problems of her life would still exist.
Not being able to solve his money problems is a problem for Renata, more than the possibility of not accumulating millions of dollars.
At the moment that happens, when Renata's face becomes a scowl barely concealed, Renata realizes that Mary Louise is really much more macabre and calculating than she thought. And she realizes that Celeste is going to fight.
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