Podcast Mentions

Big Little Lies

Liane Moriarty

From the author of A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead.

Podcasts 6

Quotes 34

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The Toast

Podcast

The Toast

They recalled that the Hello Sunshine book club had previously propelled Big Little Lies to success, noting its impact on the club's reputation.

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The book club was a huge success. Big Little Lies. Like she, this is really, really impressive and it's very well deserved.

— Episode: S4 Ep138: CHAOS: Tuesday, August 3rd, 20...

Episode: S4 Ep138: CHAOS: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021

They recalled that the Hello Sunshine book club had previously propelled Big Little Lies to success, noting its impact on the club's reputation.

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The book club was a huge success. Big Little Lies. Like she, this is really, really impressive and it's very well deserved.

Something Was Wrong

Podcast

Something Was Wrong

The host selected the title as their audiobook of the month across several episodes, praising its female writers, heroines, celebrity narration, and immersive sound design. They highlighted it as a standout choice from the catalog.

Highly Recommended

Episode: S20 E9: The Real Brody

The speaker selected this book as their audiobook for the month. It was described as having female writers and heroines, celebrity narration, multicast productions with immersive sound design, and traditional audiobooks.

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This month I selected Big Little Lies.

Episode: S20 E8: What the F*ck Happened?!

The speaker mentioned selecting "Big Little Lies" as their audiobook of the month from Audible.

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This month I selected Big Little Lies.

Episode: S20 E6: Rot in Hell

The speaker selected "Big Little Lies" as their audiobook of the month, praising the female writers and heroines, celebrity narration, and immersive sound design.

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This month I selected Big Little Lies.

Episode: S20 E5: Evil to Her Core

It was chosen as the audiobook to keep from the entire catalog for the month.

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This month I selected Big Little Lies.

Episode: S20 E4: FAKE

It was selected by the host as their audiobook choice of the month from Audible.

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This month I selected Big Little Lies.

Fresh Air

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Fresh Air

The novel was cited as one of the popular books whose adaptations the TV writer has worked on.

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He was busy writing for television including such popular Emmywinning legal series as Ally McBeal and the practice More recently Kelly has enjoyed a late career renaissance Creating acclaimed TV adapt...

— Episode: How Formerly Enslaved People Were Stripp...

Episode: How Formerly Enslaved People Were Stripped Of Land

The novel was cited as one of the popular books whose adaptations the TV writer has worked on.

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He was busy writing for television including such popular Emmywinning legal series as Ally McBeal and the practice More recently Kelly has enjoyed a late career renaissance Creating acclaimed TV adaptations of such novels as Big Little Lies.

Lovett or Leave It

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Lovett or Leave It

It was discussed as an example of a successful American creative work that was initially intended for a limited run but expanded due to its popularity and demand.

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Big Little Lies is written and filmed and edited and distributed right here in America.

— Episode: Rain on Trump's Parade

Episode: Rain on Trump's Parade

It was discussed as an example of a successful American creative work that was initially intended for a limited run but expanded due to its popularity and demand.

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Big Little Lies is written and filmed and edited and distributed right here in America.

Big Little Lies is just so fucking good.

And then they all got around a table and they were like this fucking capitalism monster is giving me a hard time. We gotta figure out a way to get more Big Little Lies out of this fucking content barn.

That's what brought down the Berlin Wall Big Little Fucking Lies.

season one was based on a book it had an ending I write for TV it's hard.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Podcast

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

The title was frequently brought up as the source of the popular TV series, with the hosts noting its graphic violence that the show chose to leave out and praising its nuanced look at wealthy mothers and marriage dynamics. Bowen Yang mentioned reading it after watching the series, while Matt Rogers and D'Arcy Carden expressed strong enthusiasm for its female friendships and satisfying mystery conclusion. The consensus across episodes was that the book delivered a perfect ending and was highly recommended.

Highly Recommended

Episode: "Niche!" (w/ Jordan Firstman & Charles Rogers)

Bowen Yang mentioned having read this book after having watched the television series. It was viewed as one of his better reading choices.

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I did read Big Little Lies the novel after I watched that series.

Episode: “Me Gonna Watch” (w/ D’Arcy Carden)

It was highly recommended and loved by the guests, particularly for its female friendships and the satisfying conclusion to the mystery.

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Have you watched Big Little Lies?

I loved it, I loved it.

It's a beautiful hour of television or 40, whatever it was, like it was done so well.

When does a show ever do that?

The finale stuck the landing damn so hard.

Episode: "Spider Wars" (w/ Patti Harrison)

It was described as a show about wealthy mothers in Monterey, California, and was highly recommended for its nuanced look at marriage and control dynamics.

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I'm telling you it is such a gag. I gag constantly on this.

It's like desperate housewives but with no wink.

It's based on a novel so it's only gonna be one season.

It's David E. Kelly and Jean-Marc Valle who did Dallas Buyers Club and Wild.

Episode: "Oprah, as in Winfrey" (w/ Phoebe Robinson)

The book 'Big Little Lies' was discussed in relation to the TV adaptation. It was mentioned that the book includes graphic violence, which the show chose not to depict.

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I have not. But I heard it's great. I was just telling Bowen the abuse in the book towards the end.

I'm actually happy that they didn't depict it on television because what happens in the book is the last straw for her is he he takes her head and slams it against a wall.

Episode: "Who Cares?" (w/ John Early)

John Early mentioned that he thought the ending of Big Little Lies was universally perfect. It was also mentioned as a contrast to the ending of Girls.

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It's amazing how they did that, they really pulled it off, it's so satisfying.

It's amazing how they did that.

Episode: "Patti Lupone Marked It” (w/ Cole Escola)

It was a TV series that Cole Escola said he had been watching, and was enjoying the actresses' acting in it, specifically Robin Weigert's performance.

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I'm like, I don't think you're not there yet.

I'm like, I don't think you're not there yet. I'm not there yet. You'll you meet her in episode three She's so amazing.

Episode: "Spider Wars" (w/ Patti Harrison)

It was described as a show about wealthy mothers in Monterey, California, dealing with conflicts and a murder, similar to Desperate Housewives but without the winking humor.

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I'm telling you it is such a gag. I gag constantly on this.

It is about Monterey, it's about rich moms in Monterey, California.

It's like Desperate Housewives but with no wink.

It's really good.

It's David E. Kelly and Jean-Marc Valle who did Dallas Buyer's Club and Wild.

Untraditionally Lala

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Untraditionally Lala

They mentioned the novel "Big Little Lies," noting that they would not discuss its third season during the podcast.

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Now, don't think that you're going to come on Lost Culture Eastus, the podcast, and we're not going to at least bring up Big Little Lies season three.

— Episode: BONUS: Ask Ambyr

Episode: BONUS: Ask Ambyr

They mentioned the novel "Big Little Lies," noting that they would not discuss its third season during the podcast.

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Now, don't think that you're going to come on Lost Culture Eastus, the podcast, and we're not going to at least bring up Big Little Lies season three.

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