Little Fires Everywhere on Amazon

[SerenDippitty]

Anybody watching? Well worth checking out.

[Marsalimay]

I pictured Eleanor as looking like the woman in Love Actually with the brother in hospital.

[TomBradysLeftKneecap]

I binge watched it earlier in quarantine. The finale frustrated me and, as much as I enjoyed it, Reece is typecasting herself nowadays as the uber white power mom thing. And Mia was annoying as Hell!

[Missushbb]

Yes, he character in big little lies and in this was the same! I kept mixing them up in my head when I was watching.

[EachandEveryone]

Yes thats what Inthought. I hope she isn’t Eleanor and i hope its not set over there.

[Nowifi]

I loved it!

Agree she is not how I see Eleanor Oliphant at all, it should be set in Scotland and played by Scottish actors, it won't be though will it

[SapatSea]

I enjoyed it. I didn't like some of the changes they made to the book bringing in events that didn't happen and making characters different to be more "woke" and deal with more issues.
I quite liked Mia in the book but found Series Mia to be a self righteous prig and disliked how KW kept filling her mouth with air and then huffing it out breathily every time she wanted to emote. If you have a best selling book there is a reason it has become so, so my advice wold be don't mess with the story. Despite that it is well worth a watch. Good lockdown fodder.

[EachandEveryone]

What did they do differently?

[SapatSea]

Quite a lot. I've linked an article, if I wrote things on here I might be accused of spoilers

Don't read if you don't want spoilers

www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a31709280/little-fires-everywhere-show-book-differences-changes/

[Sleepyquest]

I absolutely loved it and keep thinking about it. I haven't read the book and don't think I will because the show was perfect to me. I loved that it was set in the 90s too

[jmh740]

I read the book and finished the series yesterday, it made me mad she made pearl go on the own in the end as a mother wouldnt she have gone with her? I assumed the house was either mias parents or the Ryan's.

[EachandEveryone]

The parents im guessing.

[SamSeabornforPresident]

I thought in the book they were all nicer. Mia was nicer to Lexie, the Richardson kids were nicer to each other, Elena was just generally nicer. And I remember a different resolution with Elena and Izzie?

[Veterinari]

The house at the end was Mia's parents house - she'd asked Pearl if she wanted to go to NY ie find her dad and Pearl said no.

Mia did go in in the end too.

I liked that all of the characters were flawed. Elena started off as 'nice' offering them the apartment etc but the way the racism was unpicked and presented was very well done. Mia was prickly and defensive, but kind to the children. I thought her speech to Lexi was good - Lexi could have gone literally anywhere but she used Pearl and Mia because they 'didn't count' and therefore their judgement or otherwise of her choices wouldn't impact her socially.
I thought it was well written and acted and I liked the way all of the threads were brought together

[BarbeDeMaman]

I felt so sorry for Elena. She was doing her best, trying to be a good mother and wife. I thought she got crucified for her efforts and Mia was mean. She had a set against Elena from day 1.

I loved it mind you though I hadn't read the book. I thought Mia's interference in May Ling's situation was awful too, they went right into "take the baby back" immediately and aggressively rather than think of the babys welfare.

All in all Mia came across as angry and bitter. Maybe she had good reason to be but if she hadn't barged through Shaker they would have muddled through their issues without the catastrophe they ended up with. Poor Izzie was the saddest character, and she hadn't any sense so how was she going to cope wherever she ended up? (I may have been over invested in these characters!)

[Veterinari]

Interesting isn't it how we see the characters differently. I saw Elena as calculating, malicious and determined to preserve her facade of 'perfection' even to the extent of dismissing her own daughter's sexuality/mental health. Her determination to destroy Mia was vicious, targeted and personal.

Yes she was unhappy, but most of that unhappiness was of her own making, and she never ever took responsibility for her own choices - she blamed everyone else for the bad things that happened yet continually credited her wealth and privilege on her good choices and hard work. She's a total narcissist and continually tried to weaponise Pearl against Mia.

Elena thought that offering for Mia to be her maid, dismissing her daughter's sexuality with a haircut and a prom dress, and trying to buy May Ling for 10K were 'kind' choices rather than representative of her deeply held racial and class privilege.

I think Elena got everything she deserved

[mum2jakie]

Is this likely to be shown on mainstream TV (including Sky?) Or will it be exclusive to Amazon? Loved Reece Witherspoon in Big Little Lies.

[Bluemoooon]

Why did Mia move house all the time. Why did she rent if she had artwork worth so much?

[SamSeabornforPresident]

She didn't want to sell the artwork, I'm assuming because a) it was a reminder of Pauline and b) if the surrogacy couple saw it they'd know how far the pregnancy got, and therefore that there was a high chance that she was lying.

[TheStuffedPenguin]

@Bluemoooon so that she would never be found of course !

[TheStuffedPenguin]

Very apt currently . I gather that in the book there was no racial difference . Agree with whoever said that Kerry's facial expressions were off putting plus she was a real meanie !

[Bluemoooon]

Oh, dear, I've missed a major part of the story.
I think I'd have liked it without the race complication. I'm finding it too complicated to follow, so many threads and some become less believable as they move so fast. Also I don't often find 'great party' s or fun disco very convincing on the screen.
Reese W and Joshua Jackson (the Affair) seem to have aged a lot since I last watched them.
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[Nillynally]

I really enjoyed it- both main characters were both quite hateful! Reece Witherspoon is ideal as Elena!
I also liked the change of Mia and Pearl being recast as black women, it definitely adds a different tension- certainly very apt right now.

[Gatehouse77]

I’ve just finished it and really enjoyed it. I was very impressed with the acting of the young Mia and Elena. I felt they had some great nuances they made them credible as younger versions.

[heynori]

Just finished this and really enjoyed it!!

Hope I'm not breaking any spoiler alert rules but the ending with the baby really bothered me, I have close friends who are adoptive parents so the ending doesn't sit comfortably at all.

[LizzieMacQueen]

Are we meant to empathise with Mia?