- Network: Paramount+
- Series Premiere Date: Dec 11, 2025
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It’s bingeable but at times feels sloppily plotted. .... Behind it all there are serious points being made about how new mothers can struggle: feeling unable to stop a baby’s incessant crying, trying to manage the demands of older children, dealing with the pressures on a marriage.
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Overall, though, "Little Disasters" manages to turn a complicated narrative into a cohesive and thought-provoking story about the importance of maternal mental health.
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Any mother with a newborn will feel like they’ve stepped into their worst nightmare when watching this well-done Paramount+ six part series based on Sarah Vaughan’s novel.
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Little Disasters has some annoying “perfect family with secrets” tropes, and uses some irritating narrative devices like foruth-wall-breaking snippets and narration. However, we liked the exploration of this unlikely friendship between a medical skeptic and a doctor, and how their differences end up threatening one of their families.
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Little Disasters is a pretty good show. Yes, most of its plot and themes could have been coughed up by an AI trained on the past decade’s worth of domestic thriller television. And its biggest twist seems highly unlikely. But for the most part, the six-part series’ economical storytelling, richly developed characters, and relatively understated performances prove that smart execution can refresh even the stalest subgenre.
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Although Little Disasters is compelling throughout, the decision to sporadically incorporate a breaking of the fourth wall is pointless in the grand scheme of things. .... These fourth-wall instances play out as redundant and unnecessary dramatic fare.