The much-anticipated new Hulu production based on the bestselling book by Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere, debuted with a 3-episode release on Wednesday, and while the book had some political tones, the show is saturated with a liberal agenda.
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As 2020 comes to a close, The A.V. Club applies our hindsight to the year in TV, finding common themes among seemingly disparate shows.
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Big Little Lies was the kind of prestige limited series that cable networks and streaming services salivate over. The eight-episode series from 2017 had a cast packed with box-office stars (like Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman) thrust into the middle of a murder mystery set against the idyllic backdrop of oceanside Monterey, California. Based on a bestselling novel by Australian author Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies showed that pulling apart the picture-perfect façades of beach house-dwelling rich people made for riveting and award-winning television. It provided escapism as well as a harmless dose of schadenfreude (for those of us without beach houses). That success led HBO to drag a second season out of the original source material, which, despite the welcome addition of Meryl Streep