Little Fires Everywhere
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Theres a line you hear a lot from therapists, or in parenting classes and books.
This argument seems to be the thesis for the second episode ofLittle Fires Everywhere.
shell be working in her new friends home and will see her there after school.
She craves stability and is acutely aware of the class dynamic that separates her from most of her classmates.
This public school is so well-off that it has a planetarium!
And a computer lab with dial-up internet!
He then accurately assumes shell need forms to receive subsidized school lunches.
All of this would make most any kid run to an adult for help.
That the camera lingers on Elenas actual daughters, Lexie and Izzy, during this exchange is telling.
For Lexie, Pearls letter serves as an opportunity.
For Izzy, the matter is more complicated.
None of this really helps the simmering power dynamic between the two mothers.
Of course Mia has read Eve Enslers play and can intellectually destroy any prudish thoughts on the subject.
All of this math class drama isnt really because of Pearls quest for harder classes, anyway.
But Mia and Elena arent the only parents central to this story.
In the last scene, Mia learns that Bebe also had a daughter.
As to what happened to her?
Well have to wait until the next episode.
Burning Embers
Elena tells Pearl to get between the boys when shes taking first-day-of-school pictures.
See what they did there?
Its unclear why the episode opens with the flashback to 1983.
Are we supposed to judge Mia for the car hookup because her daughter was there?
Wonder if she is, or was, a sex worker?
