Little Fires Everywhere
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I want to start this recap by explaining that I watched this episode soon after my daughter was born.
Yes, this episode ofLittle Fires Everywherecan be a little heavy-handed in how it forces the issue of race.
The episode also really, really makes me hate Elena.
The scene starts with Bebes exhausted eyes.
Her newborn wont stop crying and she cant get her to nurse.
Instead, she is admonished that she should try breastfeeding because its free.
She goes home to her empty apartment to find that the powers been turned off.
After the opening credits, we flash to the present.
Mia and Bebe are at work at Lucky Palace.
Mia urges Bebe to look for her daughter because a mother is a mother.
But she does ask around at the fire station.
The mystery of the missing baby is not that hard to solve.
Who abandons a child like that, Elena says to Mia.
Meanwhile, its time for the homecoming dance.
Whether they admit it or not.
She also accidentally hits on the giant question mark of Pearls life: Who is her dad?
Or, at least, does he look like her?
The dress immediately becomes the object of the latest row between Mia and Pearl.
Mia is horrified that her daughter has taken a gift from some rich, spoiled white girl.
And why did Mia have to work inthathouse, anyway?
Everything stops when the three adults see Izzy in her homecoming dress.
Her parents are taken by how proper and polished she looks.
Mia notices that she nicked her leg shaving and needs a bandage.
However, Izzy cant keep up this charade for long.
None of this is known to Elena and Bill, who have their hands full at the birthday party.
But this is forgotten for the time being, thanks to Mia.
She crashes the party just in time for the candles to be blown out.
Hysterical, shes restrained, just as the camcorder recording the event crashes to the ground.
Burning Embers
We dont give Bill enough credit.
So what if Mia found aPenthousemagazine in his desk drawer last episode?
But the90210logic seems a little extreme.
That shows Spring Dance episode aired in 1991, when Lexie would have been about 12.
I guess90210really had an impact on her.
It could be worse.
SetLittle Firesa few months later and the kids would be referencingDawsons Creek.
