John Oliver has some insight on what Nicole Kidman’s Big Little Lies plotline should look like in Season 3 — if a GOP candidate’s “Wiccan” concerns about Monterey, where the David E. Kelley crime drama takes place, are to be trusted.
In a segment on the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, the talk show host discussed how Republicans, including Donald Trump and running mate J.D. Vance, have rejected being called “weird” by politicians across the aisle. Oliver singled out GOP candidate Hung Cao, a retired Navy captain.
Calling him “a very strange man” with no political experience, Oliver played a clip of Cao admonishing Monterey, California, for becoming a “very dark” place that has since been overtaken by “witchcraft” and the “Wiccan community.”
“If Monterey is actually overrun by witches — which it’s not — I’m frankly furious there wasn’t a witchcraft storyline on Big Little Lies,” Oliver joked.
“How could you deprive us of Nicole Kidman showing up to a moonlit orgy and announcing, ‘We come to this place for magic?’” Oliver continued, referencing the Oscar-winner’s viral AMC advertisement. “Everyone’s head would have exploded.”
As Deadline previously reported, hopes of a third season of the Emmy-winning series — also starring Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, Zoë Kravitz, Laura Dern, Meryl Streep, Adam Scott, and Alexander Skarsgård — still abound, with Dern telling Entertainment Weekly earlier this year that the show’s stars are actively planning a junior installment.
“I can tell you that all of us who are involved in it would never imagine a better time,” Dern said at the time. “We love each other so much and would have the time of our life being back together, and we love our characters so much. I truly know what you know But I know that it is something that they are working diligently at dreaming up, and I sure hope it comes to fruition.”