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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 4, 2020 · “Little Fires Everywhere” strives, constantly and with a great deal of passion, to be a weighty, thought-provoking, and significant limited series, but its most profound moments occur when...
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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 17, 2020 · The Hulu series stars Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington alongside a talented supporting cast who bring Celeste Ng’s novel to life in a highly watchable, occasionally melodramatic adaptation.
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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”...
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With Kerry Washington, Lexi Underwood, Reese Witherspoon, Joshua Jackson. Based on Celeste Ng's 2017 bestseller, "Little Fires Everywhere" follows the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives.
