Accordingly, Mia is suspicious of her daughter’s friendships with the older Richardson kids (Jade Pettyjohn, Jordan Elsass, Gavin Lewis) - oblivious brats practically destined to let down Pearl. Elena is thrown off when Mia is less than effusively grateful for her discounted rent, then confused that the artist, who takes on housekeeping duties at the landlord’s home for extra cash, doesn’t treat her as a social superior. Jam-packed with flashbacks and side plots, the series also begins as an indictment of Elena’s tendency toward white savior-dom and the casual racism that suffuses the Richardson household. And both series begin with a central mystery: in this case, who set ablaze the suburban mansion of Witherspoon’s Elena Richardson, with her inside it. Like the HBO drama, Little Fires Everywhere is based on a best-selling book (in the case of the latter, authored by Celeste Ng, who serves as a producer here). The analogy isn’t unwarranted: Both star Reese Witherspoon as a self-appointed problem-solver, are set in wealthy enclaves governed by tribal peculiarities and tackle thorny issues of motherhood and female solidarity. Hulu’s splashy new miniseries, Little Fires Everywhere, will most certainly garner innumerable comparisons to the similarly titled Big Little Lies. If all the wealth in coastal California couldn’t shield those Eileen Fisher-wrapped women from patriarchy’s ravages, what chance did women who have so much less stand? By the end of the first season (let’s just forget the second one ever happened), the Monterey 5, as the central quintet came to be coined, were united in their retribution against a rapist and domestic abuser. For all its beachside opulence and one-percenter mommy wars, Big Little Lies zoomed out when it counted.
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