Big Little Lies: Is the series true to the book?

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We watched the first episode of Big Little Lies, series based on the book Little Big Lies, in Liane Moriarty and you can already get an idea of how faithful the adaptation is.

The pilot impressed us by following almost exactly the original work. Keeping the same narrative that Moriarty used in the book, the series begins by reporting the crime, without revealing the victim, goes back to the past to show the lives of the protagonists and maintains the testimonies.

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See the changes we noticed in the first episode of Big Little Lies:

the not forty

Madeleine starts the book by mentioning that it is her 40th birthday, a fact that she makes a point of remembering for a long time, as the first day lasts quite a few chapters. This fact explains the character's crisis, why she is so intolerant and why she feels losing her daughter.

In this pilot, her age was not mentioned and her crisis is explained by the fact that her young daughter is going to school, which causes that feeling of loss towards her oldest daughter who is no longer a child. This fact, along with her daughter's stubbornness, is reinforced by showing Abigail in the car that Madeleine finds and goes down to complain about the driver using her cell phone, in the book there was no acquaintance there.

School properly named

Throughout the work the school is referred to as "Pirriwee Public School", in the series it finally gained a name: Otter Bay.

There is also the matter of the school presenting plays organized by Madeleine, the first conflict with Bonnie begins when she signs a petition to cancel the play Avenue Q, apparently very important to Madeleine, for having inappropriate language.

Fred, where are you?

Fred, Madeleine's middle child, does not exist in the series. I don't know why they simply took the boy out of the picture, but there is a brief mention of the character's pregnancy. Will he arrive as a new baby?

Also, the children are older, being 6 years old instead of 4.

Renata sympathetic

Renata is the type of character that no one likes, always complaining and involved in some problem that she created herself, the manager is very arrogant in the book. In the series, even though she was quite boring, she had a softened one, winning a scene to show her sentimental side by showing that she also suffers from some prejudices.

Sleep-walking

That's the weirdest change, Ziggy in the series is sleepwalking. In the book there is even a mention of him appearing at night in his mother's bed, but it is not something explored nor is it proven to be a case of sleepwalking. It's not a fact important enough to put there, unless, and I believe that's the purpose, they use it to deepen doubts about the child's allegedly violent behavior.

Apart from that, the adaptation was very faithful, reflecting the family problems well, using flashbacks that already give a good idea of Jane's problem and starting Celeste's complicated problem in a very satisfying way.

Big Little Lies premieres on February 19, at HBO.

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