Series · Netflix · 2021
Firefly Lane
A lifelong friend is a real good. The series sells it with too much gloss and a funeral hanging over it.
Tully and Kate are a picture of a friendship that functions as a vocation, which some lives really do have. The series wraps that picture in the conventions of a bestseller: a countdown to a loss, a secret, a career that photographs well. You can be moved by it and still see the strings.
Adults. If you watch it, watch it for the cul-de-sac, not for the newsroom. Ask which of your own old friends you have replaced with people who are useful.
The eight
Industry
5/10
Newsrooms and a talk show. The work matters less to the show than the bond.
Household
6/10
Mothers, a daughter, men who are not equal to the friendship.
Piety
3/10
Sentiment stands where reverence might.
Courage
5/10
They defend each other at a cost, and sometimes when they should not.
Republic
5/10
A street that remembers them. The wider world is an office.
Temperance
4/10
Ambition and affairs get their episodes.
Truth
5/10
Memory is unreliable on purpose. The show wants the feeling more than the record.
Stewardship
6/10
The question is what one woman leaves the other to finish.
Live historicallyWrite to a friend from the street you grew up on. Not a comment. A letter.
