{"id":187596,"date":"2021-02-24T02:29:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T23:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/firefly-lane-on-netflix-will-tug-at-your-heartstrings\/"},"modified":"2021-02-24T02:29:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T23:29:22","slug":"firefly-lane-on-netflix-will-tug-at-your-heartstrings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/firefly-lane-on-netflix-will-tug-at-your-heartstrings\/","title":{"rendered":"#’Firefly Lane’ on Netflix will tug at your heartstrings"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’Firefly Lane’ on Netflix will tug at your heartstrings<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Series<\/a> veterans Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke team up for the first time on the small screen in \u201cFirefly Lane,\u201d based on Kristin Hannah\u2019s 2008 novel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 10-episode Netflix<\/a> drama, adapted for the small screen by Maggie Friedman, pinball-pings between the \u201970s, \u201980s and 2003 and will app<\/a>eal to fans of earnest, tug-at-your-heartstrings drama finessed by two familiar TV faces.<\/p>\n

The storyline is woven around BFFs Tully Hart (Heigl) and Kate Mularkey (Chalke), who meet as teens in the mid-\u201970s when Tully (Ali Skovbye) moves to the show\u2019s titular street with her hippie\/druggy irresponsible single mom Cloud (Beau Garrett), who\u2019s constantly stoned and oblivious to her daughter\u2019s needs. <\/p>\n

Tully\u2019s tough exterior masks a deeper, sensitive side, while bookish Kate (Roan Curtis) \u2014 who wears cruelly ginormous glasses \u2014 lives across the street with her standard-issue square parents (Chelah Horsdal, Paul McGillion) and her secretly gay older brother, Sean (played younger by Quinn Lord and older Josh Mckinnon). <\/p>\n

Kate is a good-natured soul, a social<\/a>ly awkward outsider who is, by turns, repelled by and gravitationally drawn to Tully, who exposes her to a side of life she could only heretofore imagine. They become fast friends, bonding over their markedly different home lives, a tragic secret and a shared love of small-town adventure and escapism.<\/p>\n

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Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke team up for the first time on the small screen in \u201cFirefly Lane.\u201d<\/figcaption>
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As the series unwinds, we track the arc of Tully and Kate\u2019s friendship, which endures through high school and beyond as they room together in college and enter the workplace. At this point, Heigl and Chalke take over and continue in the Tully\/Kate roles as the years progress. Life will throw them both curveballs in their romantic, professional and personal lives. Kate marries and has a daughter (Yael Yurman); Tully, determined to become a trailblazing TV anchor in Seattle, eventually lives the dream in that be-careful what-you-wish-for kind of way. Ben Lawson plays their romantic lightning-rod, Johnny Ryan, an Australian former war correspondent (with requisite stubble and pearly whites) who\u2019s reduced to producing a softball local news<\/a> program \u2014 and is not happy about it.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t say how closely the characters and situations in \u201cFirefly Lane\u201d adhere to Hannah\u2019s novel (she\u2019s a co-executive producer). The series is entertaining enough in that angst-y kind of way, with solid performances all around, particularly from Skovbye and Curtis as the younger Tully and Kate. They\u2019re very believable as odd-couple opposites who appreciate what they find in each other, and their performances are complemented by a nice on-screen chemistry.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFirefly Lane\u201d is based on Kristin Hannah\u2019s 2008 novel.<\/figcaption>
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Heigl and Chalke, with long track records in network drama, inherit the best-friends mantle and seesaw back-and-forth between their 20s and 40s alter-egos with aplomb, revealing the depths of their characters\u2019 triumphs and tribulations. (Kudos to the show\u2019s six-person makeup team, costume designer Allisa Swanson and art director Kristina Lyne).<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t call the series binge-y in that \u201cgotta see the next episode \u2014 now!\u201d kind of way. It does get a bit repetitious at times, and its decades-jumping plotline, often within a single continuous scene, can be jarring and confusing (wait, what <\/em>year is that?) <\/p>\n

But if you\u2019re looking for an interesting place to visit, a stroll down \u201cFirefly Lane\u201d will do the trick.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#’Firefly Lane’ on Netflix will tug at your heartstrings” Series veterans Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke team up for the first time on the small screen in \u201cFirefly Lane,\u201d based on Kristin Hannah\u2019s 2008 novel. The 10-episode Netflix drama, adapted for the small screen by Maggie Friedman, pinball-pings between the \u201970s, \u201980s and 2003 and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/firefly-lane-review-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[94809,94983,94984,88715,75747,40393,94985,94986,1373],"class_list":["post-187596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-23-21","tag-ali-skovbye","tag-ben-lawson","tag-dramas","tag-katherine-heigl","tag-netflix-originals","tag-roan-curtis","tag-sarah-chalke","tag-what-to-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}