A surprising 'Little Fires Everywhere' finale lets the past burn

A surprising 'Little Fires Everywhere' finale lets the past burn

After an uneven and often disappointing season, Hulu's Little Fires Everywhere concluded Wednesday with its eighth episode, "Find a Way," in which every secret and scandal that has bubbled up since Mia and Pearl Warren moved to Shaker Heights finally reaches a boiling point. 

But the most shocking twist of all is that this final hour is the show's best.

We begin with a ham-fisted flashback, the show's favorite narrative device, taking us back to when the Richardson kids were younger and Izzy tried to save a baby bird, only to be told that its mother would no longer touch it now that it made contact with a human. The show beats us over the head with this metaphor, as usual, stopping just shy of Izzy declaring "I'm the bird" and fleeing to her room. Read more...

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