On the TV show, Izzy’s siblings set the fires together and then pull their mother out of the house. In the book, Izzy is not aware that her mother is sleeping in the house when she sets the fire, but Elena escapes. There’s a saying in writing about how your ending in fiction needs to be both surprising and inevitable, meaning you should be surprised when you get that, and then when you think back, nothing else could have happened. So, for the show that they built up, I thought it felt exactly right. Not just Izzy’s, not just Elena’s, but everybody in the family. And their taking action in that way shows their lives are going to be changed by this, too. They all see things differently than they did at the very beginning. You get the sense that everyone has been changed by this. Ng: I was really excited to see the ways in which they would add a different twist to it, because I liked the idea that this series would be its own thing, and that it was going to go in a slightly different direction. When we read through the episode with the actors at the final table read, tears were just falling out of my eyes, and I think it was just sheer relief that it was working, that it all was making sense. Once we started crafting the story toward the ending, it all started to fall into place. We didn’t really have consensus, so we left it open to discover in the process, but went with the initial idea of the kids doing it. So we earn it with Elena without her having to commit arson and burn down her own house.īut then when we got into the writers’ room, everyone had different ideas about who started the fire and what they believed in. She feels as though she caused all of this to happen. But what I got really excited about was the idea of the three of them collectively, and what would that mean and what kind of story would that be? How could that feel at the end if they finished what Izzy started? And what you got at the end is this idea that, yes, they got the gas tank and lit the matches, but when Elena takes ownership of having done it, she means that. Tigelaar: At first I wondered, Who burns it down? Is it Elena? Is that crazy? I thought Elena would definitely be the craziest person to set the fire, and then I thought if we could get her to do it, wouldn’t that be, like, the biggest arc you could take a character on? But then as we all talked about it as producers we were like, “But is that even believable?” So we kept thinking - would it be Lexie? Or Trip? Would it be Moody? And I couldn’t buy it as any of them. This leads to a blowout between Izzy and Elena, after which Izzy flees the house and her siblings, shocked by their mother’s words, finish what their sister started. On the TV show, Izzy attempts to start a fire in her room, but is stopped by her siblings. In the book, Izzy sets fire to each of her siblings’ beds while they are out of the house. Vulture spoke with Tigelaar and Ng, in separate interviews, about the revelations in the finale, and whether they are considering a second season for a show originally conceived as a limited series. So what if there is an ending that captures the spirit of her doing it, but we have the opportunity to add even more layers and complexity to it?” “Why tell the audience who did it at the beginning? Let’s make that a mystery that we can tease in concert with the other mystery of what’s Mia’s deal and what is she doing? … It didn’t rule out Izzy as being the person to do it but, certainly, we thought everyone who’s read the book is going to know the ending. “We thought there was an opportunity to create more mystery,” Tigelaar says. The idea to change that part of the ending occurred to showrunner Liz Tigelaar early in the adaptation process, but was cultivated in the writers’ room. “Find a Way,” the series finale, packed another surprise punch: We learned those little fires were set by all of the Richardson children - not just problem child Izzy, as it happened in the 2017 best-selling book. Hulu’s adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere has featured substantial changes to Celeste Ng’s novel, from changing the race of central characters Mia and Pearl to giving Elena Richardson and her youngest child, Izzy, fully developed back stories that helped explain their fraught relationship. Who set the Richardson house on fire in Little Fires Everywhere? If you’re a book reader, probably not who you were expecting.
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