Little Fires Everywhere recap: Pearl and Mia embark on their first day
is full of layers. It’s about families and secrets and lies and the lengths people will go to protect their secrets. It’s also about how privilege and entitlement affect society. In episode 2, the series is still pulling back its outer layers. However, the events that lead to the devastating fire are falling into place.
While Shaker Heights prides itself on being a manufactured beacon of opportunity for success, it’s not absent the economic and social imbalances that plague the rest of society — no matter how hard it pretends to be. Due to her many moves, Pearl’s a math level ahead of her class and, not wanting to repeat a full year of geometry, she requests to move up to algebra II.
Despite Bill’s insistence they get to the bottom of Mia’s missing reference, especially now that she’s working in their house too, Elena doesn’t know how to bring it up… until she unexpectedly shows up at the apartment and sees Mia smoking pot while working on an art piece. It’s yet another small but emblematic instance of their worlds clashing — for Mia, it opens up her creativity, but for a carbon copy of a suburban white woman in the ‘90s like Elena, it’s a sign of disorder and chaos.
Unsatisfied by her mom’s help, Pearl writes a note to the school and asks Elena to read it over. But Elena’s determined to see this through herself, noting the school’s abhorrent discouragement of students of color taking higher-level classes. The school’s discriminating against Pearl is a legitimate hardship — something Lexie clocks, stealing Pearl’s forgotten note on the counter.
Afterward, Mia confronts Elena about the background check and comes clean about lying about her reference and explains it was because she broke her lease, which wasn’t month to month. We already know about Mia’s aversion to the police, so this shakes her. She appeals to Elena’s need to be liked, explaining how hard it can be for a single black mom to find a place.
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