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RightShade

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Thinking of painting a room? Right Shade will simulate the physics of light to show you an...

BillTracker for iPhone

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From the water bill to the car payment to the cell phone subscription, BillTracker for iPhone can...

Bob Mann (459 KP) rated Litte Fires Everywhere in TV

Aug 23, 2020

The ensemble cast: outstanding (1 more)

An intelligent and often uncomfortable script

Gripping study of racism in small-town america

Flighty artist Mia (Kelly Washington) moves into the picture-perfect community of Shaker Heights Ohio with her daughter Pearl (Lexi Underwood) and is welcomed by busybody mum Elena (Reese Witherspoon). But as racial tensions, teenage passions and secrets from the past emerge, a pressure-cooker of tension builds.

This is an outstanding drama in the mould of Big Little Lies, and equally supported by an outstanding cast. Kerry Washington is Emmy nominated and justly so. But equally impressive is the young cast, particularly Lexi Underwood as Pearl and Megan Stott, who has a magnetic screen presence as Izzy and who I would predict great things for.

It’s a script that buzzes with uncomfortable racial tensions in these days of Black Lives Matters, and is gripping to the end.

I just hope that - unlike Westworld - they call it a day with this one perfect series.

Watch it!!