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Little Fires Everywhere (TV Miniseries)

Little Fires Everywhere

2020

Liz Tigelaar (Creator), Lynn Shelton ...

Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, Joshua Jackson, Rosemarie Dewitt ...

7.1

6,279

TV Series. Drama TV Mini-Series (2020). 8 Episodes. In a placid Ohio suburb lives Elena (Witherspoon), a local journalist and meticulous rule follower who helps to maintain order in Shaker Heights while trying to keep her family of six happy. When Mia (Washington) and her daughter Pearl arrive and become Elena’s tenants, the two women clash while their kids become friends.

	Author	Review
United States	Inkoo Kang The Hollywood Reporter	"An absorbing mystery drives the plot, but the story feels strangely... small (...) [It] is far from lean-in aspirational, but at least it's honest"	NEU
United States	Kelly Lawler USA Today	"Witherspoon and Washington are fantastic (...) The series has the rare ability to make the mundane simply mesmerizing (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Kristen Baldwin Entertainment Weekly	"Hulu's sharp, soapy, and emotionally intense limited series is more than your standard suburban whodunit (...) The beauty of 'Little Fires Everywhere' lies in the complicated, unexpected ways that life proves [Elena] wrong"	POS
United States	Daniel D'Addario Variety	"By its lack of visual imagination, its restatement without development of certain character beats, and its plot momentum that forces the most after-school-movie sort of confrontation (...) [it] feels, more than anything, contained"	NEG
United States	Lacy Baugher Den of Geek	"Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington shine in Hulu’s deliciously entertaining adaptation (...) An addictive, emotional story with something to say (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ben Travers IndieWire	"[It] overdramatizes and overexplains a story that's already on-the-nose (...) What makes for consistent, soapy entertainment also keeps the show from becoming incendiary."	NEU
United States	Kelly Connolly TV Guide	"[At its best] is surprisingly incisive, and even at its most formulaic it's lit up with strong performances (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Joel Keller Decider	"[It] has issues, but it’s a very watchable show that should be buoyed by Witherspoon’s and Washington’s performances."	POS
United States	Meghan O'Keefe Decider	"Easy to watch and full of incendiary performances, it makes for a decadently frothy treat (...) [The audience] might be fooled into thinking it has more substance than it does"	NEU

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