"(Author Kristin) Hannah is well aware of the similarities, given the review excerpts on her website that explicitly compare Firefly Lane to Beaches.
Firefly Lane fails in trying to be Beaches: "If this sounds like the hit 1988 film Beaches, well, you’re not wrong," says Caroline Framke.
There’s no more shame in indulging in it than there is in equating sex to ice cream." It’s an adequate time-passer till the shows for which you’re really jonesing are back on. But is it entertaining? Kinda - and not even in a mean way. A pretty, pretty sledgehammer.So, is Firefly Lane good? Alas, no. Subtlety isn’t a consideration on Firefly Lane. "But maybe because of the stressful times we’ve been through of late, it was just what I wanted. Not challenging in any way," says Charlie Mason. Firefly Lane is not good or original at all, but it is kind of entertaining: "It was, not to put too fine a point on it, not great.I would have loved to see these 2000s TV darlings owning it as two grown adult women negotiating their mature dynamic." There is some light de-aging and a cute color filter on the '80s scenes, but we simply do not have the technology to make people in their 40s look 20 years younger. Because Chalke and Heigl inexplicably play their 20-year-old selves and the ghost of this creative decision hovers over the entire series, we need to discuss it up front. Their story is told over three timelines: The '70s, the '80s, and 2003, with the girls aged 14, early 20s, and 43, respectively. It tells the story of best friends Kate (Sarah Chalke) and Tully (Katherine Heigl), who have known each other since eighth grade and remain enmeshed in a tight-knit, volatile, and sometimes unhealthy relationship 30 years later. "Why this story, this moment, this medium of storytelling? Why these creative liberties - or lackthereof? Netflix's Firefly Lane, based on the novel by Kristin Hannah and adapted for TV by Maggie Friedman, is a show that fails to answer any of these questions. For producers ignoring this warning and moving ahead anyway, you have one job: Tell us why," says Promo Khosla. "It goes without saying yet still needs to be said: Not every book needs to be adapted for TV or movies.
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