Simple, but not basic. ” Always there for you ” (Editor’s note: “Firefly Lane” in the original version, from the title of the American novel whose series is adapted) tells of a life-to-death friendship, from adolescence to forties, between the twirling Tully and the most solid but more effaced Kate, of their fifteen years in the 1970s totally hippie, in their hometown in the countryside, until their early quarantine. If the two actresses play teenagers, Katherine Heigl (Editor’s note: the Izzie from the first seasons of “Grey’s Anatomy”) et sarah chalke (NDLR : « Scrubs », « How I met your mother »), take over from their twenties until their entry into the hard: the management of a couple at the end of the race for one (Editor’s note: “A successful divorce is a divorce”, as her ex says), never a couple for the other, despite a starization on a TV channel.
At the beginning, we hang on: the soundtrack plays the role of madeleine de Proust to the full, from The Police to Soft Cell, passing through heaps of hits more or less forgotten but whose little music still resonates in us at a very deep. The two actresses are doing well in this very complicated game with two different ages. Maggie Friedman, the creator of the series, began by writing a few episodes of “Dawson” and she knows how to find this choral fiber and this attention to the torments and even the incurable traumas of adolescence.
However, this three-beat waltz is a bit dizzy. The temporality is constantly jostling from one shot to another between the three eras. Of course, the past illuminates the present. We will quickly understand why the so brilliant Tully Hart, star host and inimitable in listening – a bit like Sophie Davant from Seattle – is so dark inside. Despite this fluidity in the “fittings” of a hippie outfit and a van ride with tangy 1980s scrunchies, until the management of an arduous quarantine but still as generous in the friendship stronger than anything (Editor’s note: love is deceptive, the family is destructive), the process runs quite quickly empty. Pleasant, but less overwhelming than hoped on paper.
EDITOR’S RATING: 3.5 / 5
” Always there for you “, series by Maggie Friedman, with Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke, 10 episodes, Netflix.
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