In an interview with Parade magazine, Heigl credits “some decent CGI and … pretty filters” with helping her to convincingly look 20.) Tully (played as a teen by Ali Skovbye) and Kate (Roan Curtis) meet as incoming high school freshman. Heigl and Chalke play the characters in ‘present day,’ i.e., 2003, and in the flashbacks when they were just starting their lives as adults - and we believe them in both timelines. (Ali Skovbye plays the teenage Tully while Roan Curtis is the younger Kate. In each episode, we witness pivotal moments in their lives when they were teenagers, when they were in their early 20s, and in the year 2003 when they’re in their 40s and facing multiple existential crises - some bringing them closer together, others threatening to end their bond forever. A 10-episode series premiering Wednesday on Netflix.Īnother problem with the plethora of flashbacks: The transitions are often clunky and obvious, e.g., a character wipes the steam off the bathroom mirror and studies her face - and we see the same character performing the same bit of physical business 20 years apart.īased on Kristin Hannah’s bestselling 2008 novel of the same name, “Firefly Lane” expands upon the original material over the course of 10 episodes (I’ve seen all of Season 1) but remains faithful to the core story about Tully (Katherine Heigl) and Kate (Sarah Chalke), two women who have been best friends since they became neighbors as incoming high school freshmen in the 1970s.

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