![]() ![]() (As teens, Kate and Tully are endearingly played by Roan Curtis and Ali Skovbye.) As children, they build an unshakeable bond, one that carries them through college, then their early days in ‘80s television news, and on through Tully’s rise to near-Oprah-level daytime stardom and Kate’s journey through motherhood. The unlikely friendship of Kate (Chalke) and Tully (Heigl) defines the series, from the day Tully and her mother Cloud ( Beau Garrett) move in next door to Kate and her seemingly perfect, genuinely loving family, to the final, baffling moments of the season finale. Should that fate befall you, you’ll have Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke to thank. Watch one episode, roll your eyes, grimace, and settle in for another emerge 10 hours later, blinking and baffled into the light of a new day. Full of contradictions, structured with all the soundness of a Jenga tower but anchored by two good (one of them very, very good) performances, it’s the kind of series made for Netflix’s autoplay feature. In fact, if I might add another word, it’s eminently watchable bullshit. “Firefly Lane,” an adaptation of Kristin Hannah’s novel of the same name, is bullshit. This writer, on the other hand, would beg to add an adjective. Unlike Kate, Tully would be lying-she’s really a slow-smile-“family” type deep down. ![]()
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