One of the few shows that I've seen while it aired in recent times was the second season of Big Little Lies; I had seen the first three or so episodes of the first season the fall after it first aired, but didn't come back to the show until just before the second season began airing. Though I didn't watch most of the episodes live, I did strive to watch them relatively unspoiled, and it provided an interesting dynamic in terms of the various narratives/tones that the showrunners tried to juggle. To be clear, the season felt like a mixed bag; on the one hand, the central storylines of fearful regret over the killing that the first centered upon felt like a rehash, with a too-clear antagonist embodied to the hilt by Meryl Streep. On the other, what I loved was the more conventionally pleasing, potentially meme-machine-tooled Laura Dern storyline, which embodied the "campy" pleasures that the show otherwise so studiously attempted to avoid. Was it the creators' intentions for this secondary plotline to take up most of the attention? Probably not, but these intentions felt mostly lost in translation.
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