The arrival of a stranger in town turns the genteel suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio, upside down in “Little Fires Everywhere,” an adaptation of the best selling novel by Celeste Ng.
The eight-episode limited series, set in 1997, opens, fittingly enough, with a scene of devastation. Elena Richardson (Reese Witherspoon) stands in front of a burning house — the one where she lives with her husband and four children.
Elena is one of the town’s self-appointed gatekeepers, a micromanager whose need to control has turned at least one of her children — Izzie (Megan Stott), the youngest — against her.
Her phone call to the local police about the presence of an “older model” blue hatchback with an “African-American” woman behind the wheel in a local
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