Will There Be a Big Little Lies Season 3?

Warning: Spoilers for Big Little Lies season 2 ahead.

The Big Little Lies season 2 finale ended with Bonnie (Zoë Kravitz) deciding to turn herself in for pushing Perry down the stairs that fateful night. With the Monterey Five finally freed from their big lie, the story seemed to be at its end; Madeline (Reese Witherspoon) and Ed (Adam Scott) are ready to move on after renewing their vows, Celeste (Nicole Kidman) gets to stay with her kids, Renata (Laura Dern) is finally done with her ranch-betting husband Gordon, and Jane (Shailene Woodley) begins to open up to Corey (Douglas Smith) after a few difficult attempts.

But some viewers had questions, requesting even more closure after that ending. What would happen to Bonnie after her confession—would she be let off the hook for trying to defend her friends? And would the other women be in trouble with the law for helping keep the truth under wraps? Will Ed ever tell Madeline about Tori’s proposal? Is Renata going to rise again, like a beautiful phoenix with a lot of money?

The only way we’d find out is with a third season. Is that in the cards? Here’s everything we know.

Which cast members are interested in doing another season?

Reese Witherspoon was fairly noncommittal at the Big Little Lies season 2 premiere when asked about further seasons: “I don’t know [if it could happen],” she told Entertainment Tonightin May 2019. “I never say never. You don’t know. And [season 2] was a surprise.”

But apparently time (and quarantine) has made her and Laura Dern more interested in returning to their BLL characters. During an Instagram Live together in May, the pair spoke about returning to the world of Monterey. “I really do fantasize that we’ll do it again cause I miss—don’t you miss those characters?” Dern asked. Witherspoon added later in the chat, “We want to do it, we’re just kind of waiting. We’re trying, guys. We’re trying to come up with the right story—and how do we end after that cliffhanger?”

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Witherspoon also revealed some celebrity cameo ideas she had for a third season. When asked by Dern who should join the starry cast, she said, “I wish Ice Cube! Ice Cube should be in Big Little Lies 3.” Dern replied, “Hello? Obviously. There’s no question, and such a good actor.” Another possibility, if Witherspoon had her way? “I mean, I’m always hoping for J.Lo to show up, just ’cause I really enjoy some J.Lo,” she admitted.

Nicole Kidman is definitely Team Season 3. This week, she gave two separate interviews that indicated she’d be more than happy to return. “There is always talk of trying to do a season 3,” she confirmed on the Deadline series Behind The Lens. Kidman later added, “We have some ideas. Liane Moriarty has some ideas. [Showrunner] David [Kelley] has some ideas. [Season 1 director] Jean Marc Vallee has ideas. Everybody has ideas. There’s ripe material there.”

The Oscar winner gave a similar answer while speaking on Entertainment Weekly‘s The Awardist podcast. “The role is so beautiful because it’s so, so layered,” she said of her Emmy-winning role as Celeste. “I mean, I could play her for the rest of my life, exploring the way her life unravels. You just go, ‘Ahh, ok, jump off the cliff and try.’ And I’ve always tried that through my whole career anyway, and as a person, you jump off. Why not?”

When asked by Deadline in November 2019 about the status of the third season, she deferred to the BLL creative team. “The muse is Liane, and she will construct something, so it’s left there. And I like how that is, that it’s David and Liane,” Kidman explained. “It’s David’s show. David E. Kelley constructed this show with Liane Moriarty. They built it from the ground up, and it’s their show, and we’ll see if they’re ignited into building a life for these women, and which way they would go next. We’ll find out.”

Back in July 2019, Kidman told The Daily Telegraph, “I think we would love to do a season 3 because there is certainly ideas, but we would not do it without all of the same people involved…even the kids.” That’s a big ask, but fingers crossed.

Has season 3 of Big Little Lies been confirmed?

No. If anything, the higher-ups at HBO seem pretty adamant that season 2 will be the final installment of the drama. The show’s creator, David E. Kelley, said all the way back in February that there was “no such plan” for another season in Monterey. “It’s one and two, and we like our closure with season 2, but that will probably be it.”

He’s not alone in suggesting season 3 is off the table. HBO president Casey Bloys told TVLine that the demanding schedules of the show’s A-list cast made further seasons unlikely: “I love this group of people—I would do anything with them…But the reality is, they are some of the busiest actresses working in Hollywood. We have deals with some of them—Nicole [Kidman] is doing her next show [The Undoing] with us. I just think it’s not realistic.”

Let’s hope they all get their iCals synced, though, because it sounds like HBO would be up for it if the actors could make it work. “Look, if they all came to me and said, ‘We worked out all of our schedules!’—then sure,” Bloys told TVLine. “But I just don’t think it’s realistic.” Well, given that Big Little Lies‘ second season was itself a surprise renewal, it’s not a total impossibility…right?

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