Large Little Lies is officially returning for a 2nd flavor this weekend on HBO. Here's everything we know so far. Fair warning—spoilers ahead, if you oasis't finished flavour one. (What are you waiting for? Here's where to stream information technology.)

Season 2 volition premiere on June 9.

"It'due south looking like June. I think June," Kidman told Andy Cohen during CNN'southward New year's Eve special, when he asked about the season's debut.

And in February, HBO confirmed that news with an Instagram post:

In a new trailer released in April, announced the official date of the premiere. Big Little Lies will return on June 9.

Information technology had been previously reported that new episodes would air old in 2019. "It wouldn't be impossible to get on in 2018," HBO'due south president of programming, Casey Bloys, said.

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Fortunately, HBO just posted everything you demand to know if one quick Instagram video. Watch information technology here:

Nicole Kidman just dropped a huge spoiler for season 2.

During a panel at the Fly previewing season ii, Kidman revealed that despite his character seemingly having died in the first season of Big Little Lies (distressing for the spoiler!), Alexander Skarsgard is returning in some capacity for season 2.

"He was the nearly incredible acting partner, and and so he came back for season 2…" Kidman said before trying to back-peddle a scrap. "He has a footling bit of a part in the sense of … the ground of … okay, I'll be serenity. He didn't abandon us. We'll put information technology that manner."

TVline previously reported that Skarsgard was "expected to return in some capacity." HBO likewise previously confirmed that viewers volition encounter "most" of the chief characters once more in flavour 2.

Given Kidman's comment, we'll likely come across Skarsgard play his grapheme, the calumniating rapist Perry, in flashbacks, just speculate wildly with us for a moment.

Maybe he'll come back to haunt the women of Monterey. Or, perhaps, Big Lilliputian Lies season ii will add a convenient time-travel element, à la Outlander.

Or maybe he isn't dead later on all. Every bit Skarsgard said at the Golden Globes, "I don't even know if I'm actually expressionless or non. I feel okay right at present only nosotros'll see."

He told Digital Spy that he has "read all the scripts" for season two. And that it's "very smart" and "very skilful."

He has as well shared that he was on-set during filming, but can't disclose what he was doing in that location.

"I was on set, yes. I can't disclose what I did on set," Skarsgard said on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. "Peradventure, I was interim. I might have been just moral support. I might accept simply made java for the ladies. I might have helped Meryl Streep with her acting… Not help, but just give her fiddling pointers, fine tune it a bit."

Watch the full interview below:

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The start full trailer is finally hither.

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The clip shows a new costume party (one that appears to be '70s-themed), the Monterey five in a police force line-upwards, a preview of Meryl Streep'south part, and of grade, Madeleine and Renata making their presence known at schoolhouse.

A new Instagram handle for the series just revealed photos from the season.

Follow along at @biglittlelies.

All the women of Monterey are coming back.

In February of 2018, HBO confirmed that Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern, and Zoe Kravitz had signed new contracts for flavor ii.

Previously, HBO had announced that Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman will return as both stars and executive producers of the series.

"I'm thrilled to be bringing back this talented team of artists," Witherspoon said in a statement. "It gives united states the opportunity to delve deeper into the lives of these intriguing and intricate Monterey families and bring more of their stories dorsum to the audience who embraced and championed them."

Co-ordinate to The Hollywood Reporter, Witherspoon and Kidman will each receive a pregnant salary bump, and will make "around $1 million an episode" for flavor two. Co-stars Kravitz, Dern, and Woodley volition reportedly get raises besides.

Deadline also reports that Kathryn Newton (who plays Abigail), Robin Weigert (who plays Celeste'southward therapist, Dr. Amanda Reisman), Merrin Dungey (who plays Detective Adrienne Quinlan), and Sarah Sokolovic (who plays Tori Bachman) volition all be returning also.

Meryl Streep will play Perry Wright's mother in this season.

HBO confirmed on Twitter that the legendary Meryl Streep has been cast in Big Little Lies season two, joining the "tribe of violent #BigLittleLies women."

Co-ordinate to the Hollywood Reporter. Streep's character arrives in Monterey searching for answers after Perry's apparent death at the terminate of flavour 1.

"She deeply loved her son … as much equally whatsoever mother can honey her son," Big Picayune Lies author Liane Moriarty told The Daily Telegraph about the role. "She had a slightly fraught relationship with her daughter-in-law, so it's a very complicated, hard fourth dimension."

Perchance unsurprisingly, stars of the show are thrilled that Streep is joining the bandage.

"We didn't call up we'd get her," Kidman told ET during a bear witness at New York Fashion Calendar week. "It really is her standing upwards and going, 'I support yous as women, and I believe in you lot," Kidman said. "I think that'due south a big statement from her."

Kidman'due south co-star Laura Dern agrees. "It'due south astonishing! When I tell anyone in my life that Meryl Streep is joining us, it's incredible!"

There will exist another new faces in the cast.

According to Deadline, Alienist star Douglas Smith volition play Corey Brockfield, "an off-beat surfer, aspiring marine biologist and Jane's (Shailene Woodley) co-worker."

The publication besides reports that Crystal Fox and Mo McRae accept joined the cast in the roles of Elizabeth Howard and Michael Perkins, respectfully, and that actor Denis O'Hare will play Ira Farber.

The Dark Of star Poorna Jagannathan, as well, will be in season 2. According to Deadline, she will play a new character chosen Katie Richmond. At this point, information technology's unclear how she'll fit into the storyline.

Nicole Kidman also recently told Ellen that her kids appear in this season as extras. Listen to that conversation here:

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Zoe Kravitz promises there will be "a lot more than of Bonnie in season two."

"There is a lot more than of Bonnie in season ii," the extra said in an interview with Refinery 29. "It's kind of interesting the way it worked out. If in that location had only been one season, it would have been a bit of a bummer. It'southward interesting to take saved that for the second season, peculiarly seeing what happens at the stop of season one. Now [we're] revealing who she is, why she is the way she is, and why she did what she did. I don't retrieve you will be disappointed."

She besides told Rolling Stone, "They're not using her to tell someone else's story ... She has her own story."

Shailene Woodley too says this season is going to be 'very emotional.'

"My character has a very unlike story line which is wonderful, only for many other people it goes deep," she told The Hollywood Reporter. "It's going to exist very emotional merely at the aforementioned fourth dimension still be comedic and take those light moments, merely information technology doesn't shy away from the dirty," she said.

Filming has wrapped on flavor two.

Nicole Kidman posted a sweetness Instagram to mark the occasion.

"That's a wrap on #BigLittleLies Season 2 filming! What a cute journey this has been with my Monterey 5 sisters and our passionate dedicated crew," she wrote. "Thanks HBO for the amazing opportunity and thank you Andrea Arnold for being our fearless leader, and of course the i and only Meryl Streep for believing in us. I love you lot all. twenty"

And Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern rapidly followed adapt.

The cast have been posting photos from set all summer long. Here are a few of our favorites.

In mid-August, Reese Witherspoon shared an ambrosial video from on-set with her body double, Marilee. Watch the clip below:

Here's the first motion-picture show of Meryl Streep on set:

And here'southward an amazing moving-picture show of Reese chucking an ice cream cone at Meryl while filming:

EXCLUSIVE: Reese Witherspoon Tosses Her Ice Cream Cone at Meryl Streep on the Set of 'Big Little Lies' in Los Angeles.

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Photos of the whole incident surfaced on Twitter, where user @mattybooz wrote, "I am praying Reese pelts Meryl with that ice foam. #BigLittleLies." Witherspoon wrote back, "Oh Matt! No demand to pray. I got her !"

Stars Laura Dern, Zoë Kravitz, and Shailene Woodley have also all shared Instagrams from set. See more behind-the-scenes photos here.

Season two will accept a female director.

Andrea Arnold will direct all seven episodes of the new flavour. "We take an incredible new director who's British, Andrea Arnold, and it's actually been a not bad experience to spotter how she's taken what nosotros all created in season one," Shailene Woodley said. "She has implemented her own creative vision, while maintaining the aforementioned tone and emotions, and that's been such a delight and so lovely to work with."

Reese Witherspoon also praised Arnold. "I'chiliad across excited to exist working with talented and acclaimed director Andrea Arnold who will be at the helm," she said. "Andrea's unique storytelling style will exist a welcome addition to the filmmaking squad."

Information technology will go on where season one left off.

Co-ordinate to the Hollywood Reporter, "Season 2 volition explore the malignancy of lies, the immovability of friendships, the fragility of spousal relationship and, of form, the cruel ferocity of sound parenting. Relationships volition fray, loyalties will erode … the potential for emotional and actual injury shall loom."

Some people are still hesitant about continuing the story.

While the network is plain cracking to continue the success of a program that was both a fan favorite and an award-winner, there'due south a vocal group that believes season one of the prove told the story of these troubled California women perfectly—continuing the series would only sully what fabricated it then smashing in the start place.

In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, author David E. Kelley reveals that he initially idea a season two wasn't a great idea. "Nosotros wrote it every bit a 1-off and we ended it in a way that was very lyrical. But we ended on a prevarication. I get so protective of characters and serial, too, that I don't want to damage them in any mode, and I so loved how we ended twelvemonth i and I thought, 'Permit's just go out it at that,' he reveals.

But then he was convinced past the character Meryl Streep is playing that a second flavour could work.

"Liane [Moriarty, author of the novel Big Little Lies] wrote a novella of [new] stories, and about of them we're using," he shared. But the genius ane was introducing this graphic symbol who's being played past Meryl Streep. Information technology's a succulent grapheme and I felt bringing her in was both liberating and daunting. "

Here'due south how to watch Large Footling Lies:

Flavour 1 is available to stream or buy on a number of sites, including HBO, Hulu, Amazon Video, and iTunes. Click here for more on how to re-sentinel season i and gear up for season two.