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Firefly Lane review: Netflix drama is high on saccharine and schmaltz, low on narrative consistency Some genuinely heartwarming moments aside, Firefly Lane is like an unsalted bag of popcorn, that you gobble up during a heated episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, but don t particularly remember having. Pratishruti Ganguly February 10, 2021 08:01:03 IST The post-pandemic world has witnessed an enormous spike in content-viewing. More often than not though, viewers (like me), tuned into comfort watches, the kind The New Yorker writer Kyle Chayka described Emily in Paris as ambient TV . Except, Emily in Paris had Paris breathtaking panoramic view and lead actor Lily Collins portrait of sartorial perfection going for it. ....
Netflix classifies its new series Firefly Lane in which Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke play lifelong friends as a premium soap. Neither term is quite right. Premium is not usually a word associated with cheesy dissolve cuts and distractingly bad wigs. And soap well, any true soap opera is confident enough in its soapiness that it doesn t need to hide behind labels like premium. Instead, think of Firefly Lane (premiering Wednesday) as an overlong PG-13 Hallmark movie boosted (a bit) by a pair of premium actresses. Based on Kristin Hannah s 2008 novel, Firefly Lane follows Tallulah Tully Hart (Heigl) and Kate Mularkey (Chalke) over 30 years of friendship and falling outs. We first meet the girls as polar-opposite teens in the Seattle suburbs, when the cool and beautiful Tully (Ali Skovbye) moves on to the titular street right next to bookish and awkward Kate (Roan Curtis). Both are lost in their own ways. Tully s mom (Beau Garrett) is a spa ....