高分美剧《致命女人》第二季回归_season

原标题：高分美剧《致命女人》第二季回归

美国当地时间6月3日回归的美剧《致命女人》果然不负众望，延续了第一季的辉煌。

首播次日，豆瓣开分结果显示，超过7100位网友参与评分，综合得分9.2；而该剧第一季有超过46万网友参与评分，综合得分更是高达9.4！

作为一部女性题材作品，《致命女人》有着良好的“基因”，它的导演大卫·格罗斯曼曾制作出现象级美剧《绝望主妇》。

与前作不同的是，《致命女人》在叙事结构上更为精巧，跨越了时间空间，讲述了美国的三个年代、三位女性，同一所豪宅里上演的三段婚姻生活。

在全球的广泛关注和讨论中收官后，《致命女人》续订了第二季。据了解，第二季会有10集，背景设定在1949年，讲述了全新的故事，分别探索“美丽的意义”、“隐藏在表面之下的真相”以及“一个女人为了找到最终归属愿意做出什么”。

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Why Women Kill season 2

The new season is all about a killer frump who wants to join an exclusive garden club.

Murder has a new season on Paramount+.

Ten more episodes of Why Women Kill are coming from Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry, who assembled a new group of women that may or may not be on the brink of death for being so perfect. Here, Cherry explains what to expect from season 2 of the dark comedy, starring Allison Tolman, Lana Parrilla, B.K. Cannon, Jordane Christie, Matthew Daddario, Veronica Falcón, and Nick Frost.

"I had two different ideas when I first pitched the show," Cherry says. "I had season 2 in my back pocket. I was watching a movie, which I thought was really good, about a serial killer, but the third act wasn't. They introduced a character ever so briefly of this serial killer's wife. I thought, I want to see a story line from her point of view. I started coming up with this idea of a woman who feels powerless and unseen in the world and very much wants to sit at the cool kids' table. As luck would have it, she finds out that for all her feeling powerless in the world, she has a very powerful tool at her disposal."

Like what happened in the first season, Cherry turned season 2 into a period piece. The action takes place in '40s suburbia and revolves around Alma (Tolman), a zaftig "frump" who sets her sights on joining an exclusive garden club for well-heeled ladies.

"The whole series starts with a woman whose biggest dream is to be a part of an exclusive garden club filled with all these beautiful stylish women in her community," he says. "I thought that dream would seem real and important for a certain kind of woman. I chose postwar America because of where women were at that time. Women, the Rosie the Riveters, had retreated to their homes while their husbands resumed their lives. And also, I love the clothes of the period. The themes of my characters have to do with beauty and how they feel about themselves. If you think you have beauty, how do you behave?"

The most prominent threat — or should we say target? — in the garden club is Rita (Parrilla).

"Rita and Alma have moments where you think they're going to be friends, but then [SPOILER ALERT! We won't reveal what happens], so she becomes her sworn enemy," Cherry explains. "Rita, who takes a swipe at Alma, doesn't understand that Alma has a horrible tool at her disposal. The interesting trajectory of the series is how Alma gains power and confidence and starts to become more and more beautiful and stylish."

Cherry wanted to cast an alum of Desperate Housewives to play Rita.

"I wrote the part for my good friend Eva Longoria, but by the time we were doing it she was going to start directing a movie," he says. "It was Eva who said, 'Marc, do you know the work of my friend of Lana Parrilla?' Eva hooked us up."

The body count is definitely up this season.

"There's a little bit more murder throughout," Cherry teases. "I never know how many people I'll kill any given season, but clearly I'm very dangerous."

Season 2 of Why Women Kill will premiere with two episodes Thursday, June 3, on Paramount+. The 10-episode arc will stream weekly on subsequent Thursdays.