Celeste Ng’s 2017 book, Little Fires Everywhere, is a novel driven by an underlying sense of chaos that works well for the medium. Both a portrait of Shaker Heights, Ohio—a planned community driven by purpose and order—and an exploration of what it means to be a mother, it was the sort of book that I read in one sitting and wondered in passing when the movie or television series would be made. Three years later, Hulu trotted out Little Fires Everywhere, an eight-part limited series that attempts to capture the sprawling nature of the source material, but ultimately fails. Even Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon cannot reasonably act their way through what is essentially an overstuffed tote bag full of monologues, pointed glances, and ham-fisted commentary on race, motherhood, and privilege.\n
, is a novel driven by an underlying sense of chaos that works well for the medium. Both a portrait of Shaker Heights, Ohio—a planned community driven by purpose and order—and an exploration of what it means to be a mother, it was the sort of book that I read in one sitting and wondered in passing when the movie or television series would be made.
Watching this in 2020 feels uncomfortable maybe because these micro-aggressions would be more effectively avoided on a television show now. The racial tension that exists is an extra layer of drama that instead reads too obvious.
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