(Warning: Flashback wigs ahead!)
Netflixclassifies its new seriesFirefly Lane in whichKatherine HeiglandSarah Chalkeplay lifelong friends as a “premium soap.”
Neither term is quite right.
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“Premium” is not usually a word associated with cheesy dissolve cuts and distractingly bad wigs.
Both are lost in their own ways.
Tully’s mom (Beau Garrett) is a spaced-out alcoholic hippie who calls herself “Cloud.”
Kate feels like a nobody at home and at school.
Soon, the girls are inseparable.
Telling a TV story over decades is tricky (see: wigs!
), andFirefly Laneis somewhat overzealous with its time-hopping structure.
