Bright and enthusiastic, she's the ideal suburban mother. She starts her day checking her weight and preparing her husband’s coffee before work. We watch how the story ends: Elena Richardson stares at the crumbling remains of her home, burning to embers.īut as the show flashes back to four months prior, it continues Elena’s story. In the harried first moments of the premiere, little seems different from the book. Hulu Episode 1: "The Spark" The Warrens Are Discovered, Not Introduced
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Below, breaks down how the series diverges from the book, episode by episode, and what those changes mean for Ng’s original story. But, as many critics have already noted, the adaptation never quite rises to the power of its predecessor-in many cases because it scrambles and alters its source material in diminishing ways. The show is compulsively bingeable, a firestorm of star power and mystery sprinkled with insightful performances that propel you into the next episode. Bebe’s predicament as an undocumented immigrant who gave up her child out of desperation sharpens the contrasts between Elena and Mia until their collective secrets set their lives ablaze. The two women might become friends-or at least planets in the same orbit-until Mia meets Bebe Chow. Elena, an overachieving mother of four high schoolers, considers renting to Mia an act of charity.
Mia has raised Pearl mostly from the backseat of her car, but decides to settle in the suburb to work on her next project.
It's the summer of 1997, and Mia, with her daughter Pearl in tow, has just arrived in picturesque Shaker Heights, where the duplexes conceal their secondary front doors to avoid damaging curb appeal. Little Fires follows two polar-opposite mothers, Elena Richardson (Witherspoon, in her element as a wealthy type-A blonde) and Mia Warren (Washington, using her ferocity à la Olivia Pope to breathe complexity into a starving artist).
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