Big Little Lies continued with the fourth episode of the season entitled “Push Comes to Shove” and the mothers definitely found all kinds of trouble in this episode.

Madeline did definitely not start the episode with the right foot because she is proposed, by Nathan, to have a couple’s dinner, which means, of course, Madeline and Ed, Nathan and Bonnie. I am not sure if Madeline could hate the idea of this dinner any more than what she already did. But it was really nice seeing her blow off some steam when she got home and found Ed singing for her dressed as Elvis Presley.

But this is far from being everything Madeline did in this episode. The play situation was finally more discussed and we learned both the name of the play, Avenue Q, and why so many people think it is inappropriate: there is a sex scene between puppets. When I heard this is why they wanted to stop the play I was surprised, because I thought it would be something more drastic. Renata defended why she wanted the play to be cancelled by totally avoiding the subject and suggesting a whole new play, saying that what their kids need is nostalgia. I think this statement of hers made it completely official that she only went after the play because Madeline supports it and she wanted to win against her. She made such a big deal about this just because of one sex scene. There are plays which you are advised to take your children with you, others where your children should stay home. And just trying to shut down a play based on this, seems very childish. Fortunately, Celeste was there and she kicked a lot of ass. I think this was the first time Celeste shined (I don’t mean Nicole, she has been shinning from the beginning, but Celeste hasn’t, at least not in a good way). As we found out later, Celeste loved that moment as much as we did.

Last about Madeline: I definitely did not enjoy her kiss with Joseph. I really like seeing her and Ed together, and I hope she doesn’t leave him for Joseph (which I don’t think she will).

Celeste and Perry seemed to have taken a break from the violence, and they had a few sweet moments in this episode (like the one in which Perry tells Celeste he would like to have a daughter). But it didn’t take long for them to start arguing and then returning to violence closer to the end. Celeste told Perry she was having a meeting with the mayor, and he did not like that very much. Don’t get me wrong, Perry doesn’t have an excuse for beating Celeste, and I am not taking anyone’s side in this, but this time Perry is right. It seems that Celeste never tells him anything. He overreacted a bit when he said she was going back to work (which she at least wasn’t when she started), but this is totally something one would share with their significant other, long before the meeting actually took place. And it is not just this meeting: in the first or second episode Perry stayed one more day to take the twins to their first day of school and he wanted to meet the teachers but that had happened the day before, and Celeste just went on her own, without even telling him what they were doing. When the highest stage of a couple’s relationship is when they are miles away from each other, there is definitely something very wrong.

It was nice seeing that Celeste doesn’t want to settle with just being a mom. Of course it is great but she doesn’t really do anything all day (and still has a baby-sitter, which is beyond weird and ridiculous). She loved going to the meeting with Madeline and she loved the feeling she got from being there and being a badass. She wants to go back to work, but she is afraid of Perry, as the couple’s therapist found out.

Lastly, Jane also found some trouble of her own: she said in this episode she wanted to move away, but then she seemed to put it aside. The teacher was nice enough to go talk to her about Ziggy, but she mistook the signs she got from class, because maybe both Amabella and Ziggy are both being bullied. This makes the fact that Amabella told everyone Ziggy was the bully look very strange. If they are both being bullied, why point at him? Maybe this is all part of the bully’s sick game.

Jane took Ziggy to a child psychologist and she said that is Ziggy is most likely not the bully, and finally understood that he himself might also be suffering from bulling. This show really deals with a lot of great subjects and it keeps adding and that is really incredible.

This episode was a great one as usual. I hope that Jane starts getting more screen time, because I think for the past 2 episode (3 and 4, I mean) it seems she is being sidelined by the other two moms. I am giving this episode an 8.3.

This show is definitely too small, and there are only 3 more episodes left, so don’t miss my review of episode 5, “Once Bitten”.