![]() ![]() And like another Hello Sunshine project, HBO’s “Big Little Lies,” it adapts a literary page-turner by a female author into a starring vehicle for Witherspoon. Rarely has a period piece felt this assiduously up-to-date in its racial and gender politics.īased on Celeste Ng’s best-selling 2017 novel, “Little Fires Everywhere” originated with Reese Witherspoon’s production company, Hello Sunshine. You can almost sense the characters catching themselves just before they refer to one another’s appropriations, microaggressions and code switching. Watching it, though - three of its eight episodes appear Wednesday, followed by one each week - you’ll most likely be reminded of a more recent vocabulary. The Hulu mini-series “Little Fires Everywhere” is set in the 1990s, a fact that its script and soundtrack take great pains to remind you of: Sugar Ray and Grey Poupon, “Waterfalls” and “Before Sunrise.” There’s even a reasonable onscreen facsimile of the New York Times lobby circa 1997. ![]()
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