SummaryThe seemingly perfect life of The Richardsons (Reese Witherspoon and Joshua Jackson) is turned upside down by Mia Warren (Kerry Washington) and her daughter in the adaptation of Celeste Ng novel of the same name.
SummaryThe seemingly perfect life of The Richardsons (Reese Witherspoon and Joshua Jackson) is turned upside down by Mia Warren (Kerry Washington) and her daughter in the adaptation of Celeste Ng novel of the same name.
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.
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.
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.