Through her research, Elena discovers that Mia had agreed to be a surrogate mother for a family in New York however, after a traumatic event, she ran away and kept the baby as her own, telling the parents that she miscarried. Her desire to defeat Mia and help her friend win the trial results in uncovering her antagonist’s secretive family history. Elena’s behaviors in assisting Linda, reveal her own fragility and difficulties coping with motherhood despite her self-righteous lifestyle. Elena dedicates time to helping her friend win the custody trial. Elena’s core belief is that both Bebe and Mia are bad mothers who did not make the ‘right’ choices for their children. Bebe’s daughter is in the care of Elena’s friend Linda McCullough (Rosemarie DeWitt) who-after years of tentatives and miscarriages-intends to adopt her. Their differences ignite in a parental rights trial (episodes 4-8) in which Mia’s coworker Bebe Chow, a Chinese immigrant, sought to regain custody of her daughter, whom she left at a fire station shortly after she was born due to extenuating circumstances.
The relationship that develops between Mia and Elena is conflictual as well. On top of expectable familial frictions, Elena and her youngest daughter, Izzy (Megan Stott), are in constant conflict over Izzy’s nickname, her hair, how she dresses, her sexual orientation, and so on. The Richardson’s are a white upper-class family, including Elena’s husband and her four children. Elena offers Mia and Pearl the apartment and an additional job as her housekeeper out of her feelings of white-guilt. Later, Elena formally meets Mia and Pearl at a showing for her rental property which they are interested in occupying.
Elena, then calls the police to report the African American woman living in her car. Elena, a journalist, discovers the car in a parking lot and an African-American woman living in the car. Mia and Pearl move to Shaker and are temporarily living in their car. Mia and her teenage daughter, Pearl (Lexi Underwood), live a nomadic lifestyle Mia is an artist they have a limited income, at times live in their car, and move often, possibly as a result of Mia’s search for artistic inspiration. The show tells the stories of two families, Mia Warren (played by Kerri Washington) and Elena Richardson (played by Reese Witherspoon) in the 1990s planned town of Shaker Heights, Ohio. Little Fires Everywhere, the Hulu original limited television show adapted from the eponymous Celeste Ng’s novel covers topics related with race, identity, motherhood, and pregnancy, among others.
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