BASED ON PAGE-TURNERS

LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE

Premieres Wednesday, March 18, Hulu

CELESTE NG’S CRITICALLY acclaimed 2017 novel moves from page to stream with one major goal: getting viewers, well, fired up. Hot-button issues of race, class, privilege and morality have a tendency to do that.

Set in Cleveland’s planned neighborhood of Shaker Heights circa 1997, the absorbing eight-part series is primarily told through the eyes of Elena Richardson (Oscar and Emmy winner Reese Witherspoon), a pillar of the community who has what appears to be the’s Joshua Jackson), four bright children and an impeccably appointed home. “If Elena were a town, she would Shaker Heights,” explains Liz Tigelaar (, ), who adapted the novel and serves as an executive producer along with Witherspoon and star Kerry Washington. “The town is very manicured, as is she. There was a tremendous amount of thoughtfulness put into this town. That is also Elena as a wife and mother and friend and human.”