![]() ![]() The Richardsons are white and upper-middle-class, with an enormous house, four kids in high school and deep roots in Shaker, where Witherspoon’s Elena, the matriarch, grew up. Set in 1997 in Ng’s hometown of Shaker Heights, Ohio-a wealthy Cleveland suburb where, she writes, “the underlying philosophy that everything could-and should-be planned out, and that by doing so you could avoid the unseemly, the unpleasant and the disastrous”-the story coalesces around two polar-opposite families. And taken together with the disappointing Morning Show, it reveals some of the limitations of her star-studded approach. Like its predecessors, the miniseries both stars Witherspoon and counts her among its executive producers. Premiering with three episodes on March 18 (each of the five remaining installments will appear on subsequent Wednesdays), Little Fires Everywhere brings Celeste Ng’s celebrated 2017 novel to the small screen. ![]()
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