Granted, Clare has never truly enjoyed a sense of stability. The central irony of “Tiny Beautiful Things” is that Clare starts advising others how to live their lives just as hers is spiraling out of control. Hahn, on the other hand, infuses Clare with her earthy, libidinous energy - an ideal match for a woman we need to find as compelling as she is chaotic. As a performer, Witherspoon is best known for her Type-A perfectionists, and she projects that air even when playing less hyper-competent characters.
(Laura Dern, who also appeared in “Wild” as Strayed’s late mother, is another EP.) But while her predecessor is still involved, Hahn puts her own stamp on this material. Back in 2014, Reese Witherspoon starred in “Wild,” based on the author’s book about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail eight years later, Witherspoon executive produced “Tiny Beautiful Things” through her banner Hello Sunshine. Hahn is not the first high-profile actor to depict Strayed on screen. As a series, “Tiny Beautiful Things” aggregates and expands those experiences, then attributes them to Hahn’s Strayed surrogate, Clare Pierce. Strayed met her readers’ deeply personal disclosures with some of her own, sharing her experience with addiction, grief and abuse in long missives more meandering and literary than straightforward tips. The show is adapted from the 2012 book of the same name, a collection of essays Strayed first published under the moniker Dear Sugar.
Fletcher” and now, “Tiny Beautiful Things.”Ĭreated by Liz Tigelaar of “Little Fires Everywhere,” the Hulu half-hour casts Hahn as a fictional version of Cheryl Strayed, the memoirist and advice columnist who rose to fame by blending both forms into one. It is a miracle of modern television that Hahn’s hyper-specific specialty has supported three separate series: “I Love Dick,” also helmed by Soloway “Mrs. Since starring in Joey Soloway’s “Afternoon Delight” in 2013, the actor has spent a decade delivering nuanced portrayals of messy, horny, hilarious women who bluster their way through middle age.
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