HULU | Release Date: March 18, 2020
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tvcinefanaticApr 21, 2020
An author has a responsibility to her readers- to provide facts based on controversial topics and to write from a space that is not a cliche or a stereotype or hating on a group of people for having a better life. A TV show or a movie has aAn author has a responsibility to her readers- to provide facts based on controversial topics and to write from a space that is not a cliche or a stereotype or hating on a group of people for having a better life. A TV show or a movie has a bigger right - to make sure that if they decide to adapt a book that discusses serious topics such as family, motherhood, race and wants to be taken seriously - is delivering justice to such topics.
Celeste Ng was a one book wonder for me. She did a complete injustice to her audience with 'Little Fires Everywhere' and Hulu did all those that didn't read the book a bigger injustice by shoving this drivel down our throats.
The book/tv show is about 'Mia Warren' an African American who didn't;t have the luxuries that Elena Richardson did growing up White and rich. She thinks that this gives her a right to demean others and think she is superior to everyone and has special rights such as abduction and encouraging other less fortunate to to think they too can 'do whatever they want' just because they don't have money. This book was stereotypical beyond belief. The author knows nothing about race and how an African American really lives or sees the world. Just because she is an immigrant does not give her the perspective she needs to write books of this nature and then sell it as facts and not drivel. She failed her readers spectacularly and Hulu failed their audience.
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Nobilis1984Jun 1, 2020
I don't know what Reese Witherspoon found about this 2017 book. The story just doesn't work for me and everything seems too cliché to me. Reese Witherspoon plays a character who just pisses me off.
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RidingHoodJul 15, 2020
Good acting but a somewhat manipulative plot, with a nasty edge aimed at some characters. Was troubling to see how some terrible character decisions were justified based on class divides. I watched it till the end, but it left a bad taste.
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