Meryl Streep’s Face, Meet Nicole Kidman’s Palm

It’s about time someone slapped Mary Louise’s uncharacteristically chic rimless glasses off her face. Based on tempers alone, it could’ve been Madeline (and we would’ve loved every second), but Nicole Kidman’s Celeste truly, truly earned the right to slap this heinous woman. How much does Mary Louise deserve to get slapped? Let us count the ways. In this single scene alone Mary Louise arrives uninvited to a practical stranger’s home, reveals that she is moving next door to her son’s rape victim, tells Celeste and Jane (does not ask) that she’s taking the twins and Ziggy for sleepovers, denies Jane’s assault, and suggests that Perry’s violence was Celeste’s fault. What do you call that? Grounds for slapping.