# Little Fires Everywhere (2020)

> A planned suburban community's picture-perfect family is upended when an enigmatic artist and her daughter rent their home and begin to unravel its secrets.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/76507

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 8
- Episode runtime: 58 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama
- Created by: Liz Tigelaar
- Network: Hulu
- Cast: Kerry Washington, Reese Witherspoon, Joshua Jackson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Jade Pettyjohn, Lexi Underwood, Megan Stott, Gavin Lewis
- TMDB rating: 7.6/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8089592/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: mild
- Tone: melancholic, intimate, tense, sharp, bittersweet

## What critics say

Audiences praise the performances and the probing treatment of secrets, class, race and motherhood in a polished suburban drama, with a moderately positive overall reception.

## Synopsis

Little Fires Everywhere (2020) is an American limited series created by Liz Tigelaar for Hulu, a single-season adaptation of Celeste Ng's novel. Reese Witherspoon plays Elena Richardson, the polished matriarch of a planned suburban community in 1990s Ohio, whose orderly household is disrupted when the enigmatic artist Mia Warren (Kerry Washington) and her teenage daughter Pearl (Lexi Underwood) move into a rental house on the Richardson property. Joshua Jackson co-stars as Bill Richardson, Elena's husband, and Rosemarie DeWitt appears as Linda McCullough, a woman whose custody dispute with Mia becomes a central fault line. The engine of the series is the slow exposure of secrets: each of its eight hour-long episodes peels back a past decision, a hidden ambition or a rule quietly broken, as the rival households circle one another and the question of who has the right to raise a child grows sharper. The storytelling moves between the present and earlier moments in the characters' lives, building a layered portrait of class, race and privilege. The tone is intimate, sharp and melancholy, with a restrained suspense that rewards close attention. Fans of Big Little Lies, Mare of Easttown and Revolutionary Road will find resonance in its portrait of suburban facades and the costs of maternal love.

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