Psychology in Seattle.

Hey deserving listeners, today I want to talk about the psychology of big little lies.

Today's episode is mainly going to be about the second season because that just

concluded.

But before we get into that, let me introduce the podcast.

This is the Psychology and Seattle podcast.

I am your host, Dr. Kirk Honda.

I'm a therapist and a professor at Antioch University, Seattle.

So there's a lot of things to comment regarding psychology and psychotherapy.

And if you want to hear my full, very angry review about the psychotherapy depiction in Big Little Lies, season two.

Listen to that episode because I did a whole episode just on how horrible the

therapy was in season two of Big Little Lies. but just getting into other things about the show,

which I think are notable, are guilt is a major theme in season two in that the guilt of and this is going to have

spoilers because this show has a fair amount of twists in a sense and so I would watch and if you

haven't seen big little lies I encourage you to watch it one because it's I think it's a great show and two it's not very long. I think both

seasons together it's something like 14 hours or something so it's it moves

pretty quick and I think it's pretty great.

Anyway, so guilt plagues the five women because they witnessed a, well one could say an accidental murder and then lied about it to the police.

The Zoe Kravitz character and Nicole Kidman's character and eventually all of them were experiencing

a lot of guilt throughout this season.

And at the climax, the very end of the last scene of season two, you see the five women going into

the police station presumably to confess after really struggling with their guilt throughout

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