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There are elements inLittle Fires Everywherethat, unwittingly, echo that HBO Emmy winner.
Their relationship also provides fodder for plenty of charged confrontations and tense moments.
Spoiler alert: The privileged, racist-but-doesnt-know-it white woman and the free-thinking, take-no-b.s.
black woman dont get along.
Little Fires Everywheredoesnt quite feel like a carbon copy ofBig Little Lies, for reasons both good and bad.
All of this makes for a powder keg of jealousy, resentment, and mistrust.
Washingtons performance is built around the things she isnt saying.
The young actors are all convincing, and actually seem like real teenagers.
Ultimately, those new details feel unnecessary.
(Elena works at Shaker Heights small newspaper but acts like shes an investigative reporter at the New YorkTimes.
That speaks volumes about her self-image without the audience needing to learn what led her to that job.)
Those moments of real depth just made me wish it achieved such moments more consistently.
