{"id":693966,"date":"2026-06-09T18:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/693966\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:12:08","slug":"elizabeth-perkins-upped-to-series-regular-on-big-mistakes-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/693966\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Perkins Upped To Series Regular On &#8216;Big Mistakes&#8217; (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Following the shocking revelation involving <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/elizabeth-perkins\/\" id=\"auto-tag_elizabeth-perkins\" data-tag=\"elizabeth-perkins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Perkins<\/a>\u2018 character in the Season 1 finale of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/big-mistakes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_big-mistakes\" data-tag=\"big-mistakes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big Mistakes<\/a>, the Weeds alumna has been promoted to a series regular for the upcoming second season of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a>\u2018s crime comedy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCreated by Dan Levy and Rachel Senott, Big Mistakes follows Nicky (Levy) and Morgan (Taylor Ortega), two deeply incapable siblings who are in over their heads when a misguided theft for their dying grandmother accidentally pulls them into the world of organized crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSPOIL ALERT: The following graph includes a detail about Big Mistakes Season 1 finale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhen someone of Perkins\u2019 caliber is cast in a recurring role, they won\u2019t be expected to just linger in the background. Perkins, introduced as the rich real estate agent mother of Morgan\u2019s (Ortega) fianc\u00e9 Max (Jack Innanen), did just that for most of Season 1 until she was revealed as the mob boss running the local organized crime ring in the finale. That sets up Season 2 of Big Mistakes, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/05\/big-mistakes-renewed-season-2-netflix-dan-levy-tv-deal-1236901565\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently ordered by Netflix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn addition to Levy, Ortega and Innanen, Perkins joins series regulars Laurie Metcalf, Abby Quinn and Boran Kuzum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLevy, who serves as showrunner, and Senott executive produces alongside Anne-Marie McGintee for Not a Real Production Company, Dean Holland (101, 102), Etan Frankel and Timothy Greenberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPerkins, a three-time Emmy nominee for Showtime\u2019s Weeds, was recently seen in the movies The Housemaid and Another Simple Favor. She next recurs on the FX limited series Cry Wolf. Perkins is repped by Gersh and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Following the shocking revelation involving Elizabeth Perkins\u2018 character in the Season 1 finale of Big Mistakes, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[300842,300843,88,217,92],"class_list":["post-693966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-big-mistakes","tag-elizabeth-perkins","tag-entertainment","tag-netflix","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}