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Little Fires Everywhere
Season 1 Premiere: Mar 18, 2020
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6.4
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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66% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
69
66% Positive
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
34% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
0% Negative
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The successful meeting of style and substance, combining great acting, superb costuming and production design with sharp scripts that expand on the acclaimed source material. ... The series has the rare ability to make the mundane simply mesmerizing.
“Fires” burns bright in its first episode and beyond, promising an engrossing, fast-moving, character-driven drama that becomes deeper and more disturbing as the story unspools.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 65 User Ratings
6.4
62% Positive
40 Ratings
40 Ratings
17% Mixed
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
22% Negative
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14 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 65 User Ratings
6.4
62% Positive
40 Ratings
40 Ratings
17% Mixed
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
22% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
First, I haven't read the book. I'm just learning this mini-series was inspired by a book. I'm actually happy to be in a position to leave a review not tainted by the expectations from a previous read. I'm not sure how some critics do that and stay relevant to the people reading their bias reviews. This series is really good. All of the acting is perfect for the various plots running through these episodes. Kerry sometimes comes off as a bit much, but I honestly think this is her authentic personality - acting wise. Reese Witherspoon is a long time favorite of mine so I was surprised to feel so tired of her character toward the last 4 episodes. Her acting is so on point in LFE that I started to believe she really is the disconnected, self-centered, narcissistic perfectionist she wants viewers to believe she is. Normally I resent shows that play too hard on the race card. However, I kept watching despite some of the misunderstanding between Elena & Mia feeling contrived and forced. As the story unfolds the writers do a good job of keeping us reeled in to what transformed into straight, heartbreaking, drama. All of it was believable unfortunately because people really do spend too much of their energy thinking about race. From that mindset we have Mia's unwarranted suspicion of this white family. To the point where she becomes a maid to watch over her daughter. Okay, got it. But it gets really good when we learn how Mia got pregnant & where this fits in the story with baby Ming Lee. We get to see an excellent depiction of the horrible handling of a family court case. This is nothing new in America, but what shocked me was the verdict. In most cases, the best interest of a child is with the mother so we provide any resources we feel can help to make sure this stays the case. As one would expect, this verdict set off a bomb that would explode in places we didn't expect. Overall this is a very good series, believable and has some of the best teen actors out there in it. Of course Izzy is an incredible character with more depth than her shallow mother can stand. Families are mostly dysfunctional & as Mia said on the stand "we all struggle, it's just that money can cover it up making wealthier people appear more stable." No truer statement could have been made. I recommend this series if for no other reason than to remind us that we have work to do - and there is nothing worst than treating others as an extension of yourself. Our kids are not us, our neighbors are not us, not everyone want to or can be exactly who we want them to be - and when we realize this truth, it's not a good idea to judge harshly or put your head up your #ss like Elena, or risk having your home burnt down to the ground with you in it.
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Little Fires Everywhere feels like the second season of "Big Little Lies" that viewers wanted (or at least deserved), and not just because Reese Witherspoon is essentially playing the same character. A juicy adaptation of Celeste Ng's bestselling novel, the Hulu limited series dishes out an enticing mystery against a soapy backdrop of class and racial divides.
Little Fires Everywhere is an effective, well-acted drama with some moments of real depth. Those moments of real depth just made me wish it achieved such moments more consistently.
It's a show that's sometimes funny, sometimes, touching, often disturbing, and almost always hard to look away from except in horror.
Rather than presenting characters in the round and then developing them, it presents characters as terms in a moral and cultural equation and then slowly reveals their pasts. For the viewer, the surprises are in the revelations and not in the choices the characters make, and rather than seeing the characters grow and change, we just see them being moved around the game board.
Eye-rolling at the show’s cultural reference points might feel cheap, but there are whole scenes which achieve little else. And when trying to shade in the characters, it’s usually sketching with shortcuts.
This Hulu series is based on Celeste Ng’s 2017 bestseller and the extended format (8 one-hour episodes) takes the time to allow the full breadth of storytelling. Reese Witherspoon departs only slightly from her neurotic, controlling mom in HBO's Big Little Lies. She has the almost "perfect" family, but there are the inevitable cracks. Meanwhile, a mysterious artist moves to town with her daughter and all their belongings in a beat-up Chevette. Many issues arise when the families interact with an especially persuasive examination of racism and class in its subtle forms. There are lots of dramatic encounters and scandalous revelations that sometimes make it feel like an upscale soap opera. Washington is a standout, but the most effective aspect of this series is the potent performances by every member of the cast, including the teens. This show is sometimes slightly sensational with juicy surprises, but overall, it's somewhat provocative, well-crafted and highly entertaining
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I don't know what Reese Witherspoon found about this 2017 book. The story just doesn't work for me and everything seems too cliché to me. Reese Witherspoon plays a character who just pisses me off.
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Good acting but a somewhat manipulative plot, with a nasty edge aimed at some characters. Was troubling to see how some terrible character decisions were justified based on class divides. I watched it till the end, but it left a bad taste.
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Production Company:
- ABC Signature
- Best Day Ever Productions
- Hello Sunshine
- Simpson Street
Initial Release Date: Mar 18, 2020
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Online Film & Television Association
• 6 Nominations
Black Reel Awards for Television
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
