.ReeseW and KerryWashington discuss their red-hot new series LittleFiresHulu
about a tight-knit Midwestern community in the '90s and what two very different moms bring out in each other. "They have this commonality between them, which is that they believe they're doing what's best for their children," says showrunner Liz Tigelaar, who worked on the Apple TV+ seriesthat starred Witherspoon as an impulsive TV reporter. "Through the story, that notion gets unraveled in both of them.
Because, as the title suggests, this story ends with fire — or rather, that's where it starts. Both the book and the series open with a house fire, one that seems to point to Elena's problem child, Izzy , as the person holding the match. But nothing's quite as it seems.
Things become more complicated when the pair find themselves on opposing sides of a court case. After Elena's friends the McCulloughs struggle to have children of their own, they adopt a Chinese girl. But happiness is short-lived when they discover that the baby's biological mother Bebe — who left the child at a firehouse after she was born — wants her back. Elena defends her friend's right to raise the child, and Mia sides with Bebe.
Bebe's abandoment of her child isn't her only hurdle: She's also an undocumented immigrant. "There are three different classes represented. There's the rich and the underserved, but there's a level underneath the underserved, which is not only not economically empowered but you are an immigrant so you are socially devalued," says Witherspoon.
In other words, do you adapt or do you burn it all down? As Elena and Mia will learn over the course of the series, perhaps it doesn't matter if your dinner is home-cooked or takeout, served in fine stemware or plastic cups. The biggest difference between the homes they've made is that only one of them ends up in flames.
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