Opinion | Ani Bundel: 'Had the show found its nerve and let the fires of racial resentment, motherhood, bio-parents versus adoption, and appropriation burn wildly, this could have been the second genuinely remarkable series for Hulu.' - NBCNewsTHINK
Written by novelist Celeste Ng, “Little Fires Everywhere” is a powerful period piece set in Shaker Heights, Ohio, in the mid-1990s. It’s a drama of two families whose lives accidentally intertwine, the Richardsons and the Warrens, and how they choose sides when a controversial transracial adoption case tears the town apart.
The novel blows this life up with the arrival of Mia Warren and her teenage daughter Pearl . Elena finds herself renting the upstairs potion of the family’s extra property to Mia, “an artist in need.” And if said artist has to pay the rent by becoming the Richardson family’s semi-unwilling housekeeper, well that’s just a benefit for all. Pearl is such a go-getter, Elena can’t help but want to try to help this poor, fatherless family.
Like with Nicole Kidman and “Big Little Lies,” Witherspoon teamed up with Washington’s production company, Simpson Street, as co-creatives behind this venture. That makes Mia and Elena co-leads, one of the show’s better choices. The series’ choice to bring in Washington as Mia also foregrounds the subject of race in a new way. In the novel, Mia is assumed to be white.
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