While there’s a lot to like about LittleFiresEverywhere, the best part is scavenger-hunting things in the background, like a 90210 board game, a Jerry Maguire poster, and a whole Nirvana conspiracy board
Photo: Hulu One of the first scenes in Little Fires Everywhere left me shocked. It wasn’t the drama — though the Hulu show, based on Celeste Ng’s 2017 novel, has it in spades — but a magazine: the August 1997 copy of YM, with the Spice Girls on the cover. On the show, Mia buys a copy for her daughter Pearl at a grocery store. I vividly remember owning a copy of that magazine. I probably coerced one of my parents to get it for me at the grocery store.
Little Fires Everywhere centers around tensions between the wealthy Richardson family and the itinerant Wallace family — artist mom Mia and quiet daughter Pearl — in Shaker Heights, Ohio, in the late ’90s. And while there’s a lot to like about the show, my favorite part has been the scavenger-hunt appeal of locating things in the background that remind me of my tween years.
Production designer Jessica Kender is behind the cans of Slim Fast and Ethan Allen furniture that create the world of the show. Kender worked closely with showrunner Liz Tigelaar, and they bonded over growing up during that time period. “We were teens and 20-somethings in the ’90s. I graduated from college in 1997, and every time we would do something, it would be a little jog of memory.
For me, the most appealingly nostalgic moments come whenever we get to see one of the five teen character’s bedrooms. Kender says all the actors did walkthroughs of their rooms and examined whether or not they felt right for their characters. Popular Lexi Richardson has a room full of ’90s trends: “Lexi’s room, if you love the ’90s, that’s the one you’ll love. There’s a 90210 board game, and “control, shift, delete” is on a post it to remember on her computer.
The set designers weren’t able to find everything they wanted. A Jerry Maguire poster had to suffice for Lexi after they were unable to source a poster for Titanic, a staple for any teenage girl at the time. We don’t get to see as much of the boys’ rooms, but Kender says they too were filled with stuff that represents who they are. Emo Moody, who suggested watching Before Sunrise with Pearl, of course has a ton of indie movie posters, but also the band that stood for teen angst at the time.
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