• Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 3, 2021
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
6.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 10
  2. Negative: 2 out of 10

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User Reviews

  1. Feb 3, 2021
    8
    The acting holds the show together. Writing needs work but Katherine Heigle proves she is an awards winning actress.
  2. Feb 20, 2021
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. You see yourself in all the characters. Such an amazing show inside and out. And Katherine Heigl? Score! Expand
  3. Feb 15, 2021
    6
    I generally liked the main characters and the somewhat unique plot but i did not enjoy the use of flashback so much. It was a good tool to provide the back story for the characters and it helped to understand the characters in a much deeper level but its far too excessive and confusing at times. I would still watch the next season.
  4. Feb 8, 2021
    10
    Read the book years ago . Absolutely love Kristen Hannah ! She is an amazing story teller. Excellent adaptation of the book so far . The cliff hangers at the end made me scream "No" at my phone !
  5. Apr 4, 2022
    3
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    not good in any manner or degree.
Metascore
57

Mixed or average reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 21
  2. Negative: 1 out of 21
  1. Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    Feb 9, 2021
    40
    [Heigl] is just right for the role of a damaged star who’s always just about to go off the rails. Chalke, from “Scrubs,” is fine, although a bit miscast as the shyer, less glamorous one. The two actresses, along with the two who play them as teens, are as good as they can be, given the flatness and redundancies of the script. They gamely play out all the crying, and yelling, and cuddling, as the story unfolds busily, randomly, and, ultimately, unsatisfyingly.
  2. Reviewed by: Kristen Lopez
    Feb 3, 2021
    50
    “Firefly Lane” is determined to wring tears and laughter out of you, and it does — it’s just that more often than not, it does that unintentionally and for all the wrong reasons. But you can’t lay the show’s problems at the feet of its heroines, who are all varying ranges of great. Chalke and Heigl make the series far more entertaining than it has any right to be.
  3. Reviewed by: Kelly Lawler
    Feb 3, 2021
    37
    It is confusing and often maddeningly boring; it lacks a cohesive identity other than as a vehicle for Heigl and Chalke to shout and cry. Its time-hopping device, clashing emotional tones and baffling plot twists add up to something far less than the sum of its parts.