Good Bye to All That: Firefly Lane S1

This week on Good Bye to All That, The Pop Break’s Podcasts Editor Alex Marcus is joined by Talk Film Society’s Manish Mathur, host of Queer & Now and It Pod to Be You to discuss the first season of Netflix’s Firefly Lane, based on the novel by Kristin Hannah. Together, they consider they discuss the careers of the series leads, Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke, the unbreakable bond between their fictional best friends, the This Is Us-esque structure, and whether she series can decide if it is a light soap or a tearjerker about best friends. Other Topics discussed include: -2003 as a year to set a period piece -If we could keep all seven timelines straight -Whether the show deflated every potentially interesting conflict before it could cook -Whether Johnny Ryan could hold his own with our leading ladies -The touching way motherhood as a theme wove through all the storylines -How nice it was that the friends didn’t secretly hate each other -How few butts there were -Whether all those cliffhangers worked for us You can follow host Alex Marcus on Twitter and Letterboxd and check out his film podcast Cinema Joes.