Reese Witherspoon
Elena Richardson
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- 1. Spark Mar 18, 2020
- The lives of the Richardson family are upended by the arrival of Mia Warren and her daughter, Pearl.
- 2. Seeds and All Mar 18, 2020
- Elena's relationship with Mia grows strained; Mia bonds with her immigrant co-worker, Bebe Chow.
- 3. Seventy Cents Mar 18, 2020
- Mia's discovery at Mirabelle's birthday threatens her newfound friendship with Elena.
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Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington ignite Hulu's sharp, soapy Little Fires Everywhere: Review. The limited series is more than your standard suburban whodunit.
Mar 17, 2020 · The Hulu mini-series “Little Fires Everywhere” is set in the 1990s, a fact that its script and soundtrack take great pains to remind you of: Sugar Ray and Grey Poupon, “Waterfalls” and...
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By Emily Tannenbaum
Updated: Mar 18, 2020 3:42 pm
Posted: Mar 18, 2020 3:30 pm
This is a spoiler-free review for the first three episodes of Little Fires Everywhere, now streaming on Hulu, with new episodes released weekly on Wednesdays. For more from Hulu, check out our review of Devs.
Hulu’s coming for HBO’s neck with Little Fires Everywhere, starring and executive produced by Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. Though Hulu’s slate of original programming is often compared with Netflix, the streaming service takes an approach far more similar to HBO (and recently, Apple TV+), enticing viewers with gritty limited series starring an A-list cast of actors with a reputation for seeking out big-budget films and prestige TV. Netflix, on the other hand, is more freewheeling, in part thanks to a large subscriber base willing to watch any program offered. But star power worked for Hulu with The Handmaid’s Tale and The Act, and it’s going to work for this highly anticipated adaptation of Celeste Ng’s 2017 bestseller.
In the opening scene of Little Fires Everywhere, set in the affluent town of Shaker Heights, Ohio in 1997, Witherspoon’s character Elena Richardson speaks to a cop as her house burns to the ground. He suspects arson as the cause — it’s also clear he believes the culprit is Elena's youngest daughter, Izzy (Megan Stott), whose whereabouts are unknown — because “there were little fires everywhere.” Yes, the title is spoken out loud in the opening minutes.
Try to push past the first episode of Little Fires Everywhere, which spends too much time hammering home the clear disparities between the Warrens and Richardsons without any real nuance. Episodes 2 and 3 explore racial and class divides in a much more honest and original fashion, without taking away from the overarching conflict. Reese Witherspoon...
Mar 4, 2020 · Hulu's "Little Fires Everywhere" relishes hot takes on motherhood and race, but overdramatizes a story that's already on-the-nose. [Review]
- Ben Travers
Mar 4, 2020 · ‘Little Fires Everywhere’: TV Review. Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington star as clashing mothers in 'Little Fires Everywhere,' Hulu's answer to 'Big Little Lies.'
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Apr 23, 2020 · A review and analysis of ‘Find a Way,’ the finale of Little Fires Everywhere on Hulu, the series based on the Celeste Ng book and starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington.
