Big Little Lies
An HBO drama covering two seasons (14 episodes total) about affluent mothers in Monterey, California whose polished lives conceal domestic abuse, a rape, and a killing. This report covers the full series as it aired through Season 2 (2019).
Episodes to know about
Jane's past rape is revealed gradually through flashbacks throughout Season 1; the assault is not shown explicitly but is described and revisited with increasing detail as her trauma is explored.
A husband violently physically assaults his wife in the shower immediately following a fight; this is among the first fully explicit depictions of the abusive relationship that recurs across the series.
An explicit kitchen sex scene between the abusive couple occurs while bruises from prior violence are visible on the wife's body; the sequence blurs abuse and intimacy.