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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
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
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.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 25 User Ratings
6.8
68% Positive
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12% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 User Ratings
6.8
68% Positive
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
12% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
20% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
A superb adaptation. Reese Witherspoon has done it again and Kerry Washington may just be set to give the performance of a lifetime.
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SEASON 1
Let's start with a few basics regarding writing a review.
First, there is no particular reason why a movie script would necessarily accurately portray a book it was based on. In fact, in general movie scripts reflect a different artistic medium as compared to books and it is expected that they will be different. Suggesting that a movie script should be exactly like the book it is based on is ridiculous and such expectations reflect poorly on the intelligence of an individual expecting movie scripts and the books be the same.
Secondly, it is irrelevant whether the characters or the movie script reflects the reviewers beliefs and opinions. Expecting movies to reflect your opinions and not liking movies (or anything) that is different from your opinion is ridiculous and reflects narrow, unintelligent characteristics of an individual who has such expectations.
So yes, Little Fires Everywhere is different than the novel it was based on - and, that is irrelevant.
The characters in the movie have behaviors, attitudes and beliefs that some individuals might not agree with or like. That does not provide a reason to not like the movie. If anything, an intelligent individual actively seeks out points of view different than what the individual has. This is how a person grows intellectually.
So, now - with that out of the way, we can address the artistic merits of Little Fires Everywhere.
The acting in this series is more than good, it is excellent. The directing , editing and other technicals are also excellent. I don't think an objective observer could suggest otherwise.
In regard to the script, it is a take on the rich-person-vs-poor-person genre. It obviously draws strong emotional reactions from some individuals. I would think that any reasonably curious and intellectually astute individual would find this version of this plot to be compelling. I certainly found it worthy of my attention and thought provoking enough to be carefully watched. I did not necessarily agree with all of the points of view represented in this series - but, I respected those points of view and tried to reflect on my thoughts and why they are different from those portrayed in the series.
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SEASON 1
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.
Starts off well enough, and Reese Witherspoon and Pacey are both good as themselves, but gets worse as the season progresses. The overacting from the others, the constant mouth hanging (close your mouths, people) and the massively implausible plot and twists all hurt. Congratulations on capturing the feel of the 90s though! The clumsy, trite, facile treatment of race and gender issues really reminds of series made 25 years ago, although at least they had the excuse that they didn’t know better?
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SEASON 1
It was quite entertaining until they introduced the ridiculous Chinese woman storyline in episode 2 or 3. I kept hoping it would go away in the next episode but from that moment on the entire series has revolved around it. Reese Witherspoon is superb though, she's the one whose acting elevates the poor writing.
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SEASON 1