![]() While following her sister’s orders, Izzy (played by Cozy DesRoches) sees an injured bird in the bushes. She’s using her time wisely, bossing around her siblings and greeting customers. With no adult in sight, Lexie (played by Caitlin Reagan) is apparently the de facto guardian despite being a tween herself, because that’s how we rolled in the ’90s. ![]() The episode opens with a flashback to July 1991, when the four Richardson children are setting up a lemonade stand. The custody battle between Chinese immigrant Bebe and the rich white McCulloughs who planned to adopt the little girl she abandoned is almost an afterthought in this episode, as the two main families’ secrets are finally exposed before everything goes up in flames. Somewhat ironically, pivoting the story around Mia and Elena’s feud actually diminished the time spent on the catalyst for their simmering resentment, a story of race and privilege in its own right. And, by casting Reese Witherspoon as the prim, wealthy, and obdurate Elena Richardson and Kerry Washington as the guarded, polemic, and caustic Mia Warren, it has made race an essential and unavoidable part of these debates. ![]() Hulu’s miniseries adaptation of Celeste Ng’s novel Little Fires Everywhere has managed to encapsulate so many debates on class, entitlement, and motherhood in just eight episodes.
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