Two mothers, one carefully ordered community, and a slow build of resentment that nobody manages to put out: Little Fires Everywhere is a 2020 American drama series about what happens when a family that lives by the rules meets a mother and daughter who do not.
What is Little Fires Everywhere about?
The Richardsons look like the household everyone else measures themselves against: prosperous, organised and sure of their place. Into their orbit comes an enigmatic woman and her daughter, travelling light and saying little about where they have been. The two families begin to overlap through the children, through favours, and through a curiosity that gradually hardens into suspicion. Each mother starts pulling at the loose threads of the other's life, and long-kept secrets come under strain. Across the season the story keeps returning to the same hard questions: what a mother owes her child, who gets to decide what a good parent looks like, how art and identity shape a person, and whether doing everything properly really keeps disaster away.
About the cast
Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington head the cast, and the series rests on the tension between the two of them. Around them the ensemble includes Joshua Jackson and Rosemarie DeWitt, together with Megan Stott, Lexi Underwood, Jordan Elsass and Gavin Lewis, whose characters carry much of the story of the two families' children.
Context & significance
Little Fires Everywhere is a screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Celeste Ng, and the catalogue credits Liz Tigelaar at the helm. It is a straight drama rather than a thriller: there are no chases and very little spectacle, only conversations, glances and decisions whose consequences pile up. Episodes run for roughly an hour each, which gives the writing room to move between the adults and the teenagers and to show the same event from more than one side. On K-Time the series is offered with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so it can be watched in the original English or in Farsi.
Watching Little Fires Everywhere on Ktime
Little Fires Everywhere streams on K-Time, a Persian-focused service built for the Iranian diaspora. Reading this page is open to everyone; pressing play requires signing in to a K-Time account. The menus and player are available in Farsi, and you can switch between the Persian dub and the subtitled original from the player.