Firefly Lane Season 2 Review: Katherine Heigl Steals The Show

The awaited second season of the popular show Firefly Lane was released on Netflix. Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke in the lead roles have yet again stolen our hearts with their friendship and unending love for each other. This time the show reveals a lot of secrets from the past and the various tests of friendship that the lead characters go through at different stages in their lives.

Firefly Lane is the perfect show to binge-watch with your best friend as it shows every side of that relationship and its value, especially among women. Characters Tully Hart and Kate Mularkey are best friends since they were teenagers and lived across the street named Firefly Lane. Their friendship blossoms out of chaos and to date their lives are no less chaotic.

Firefly Lane Season 2 Review

The first season of the series ended in a mystery about why the best friends Tully and Kate were facing a strain in their friendship. In this season the reason is revealed in great detail along with some more facts from their pasts. Tully Hart the television celebrity is faced with a financial and professional crisis in her current life in 2004 and tries to solve that when a tragic accident occurs to Johnny, Kate's ex-husband who was posted in Iraq as a war journalist.

Going back to their teenage phase around 1975, the ">story revolves around Tully and her quest to find out about her father. This quest takes a lot of time to be solved and throughout the series, she realises how the absence of a father figure affected her poorly for trusting men in her current life. From the first season, the audience already had an idea about Tully's mother and what she put her daughter through all her life. But this season does justice to her character by answering the question of what exactly turned her to be so irresponsible toward Tully.

Society finds it very easy to blame mothers for not being good enough while the bare minimum by the fathers become praise-worthy. Similarly, Cloud tried to do her best for her daughter Tully but there were too many things in her life that let her down and robbed every aspect of happiness leaving her with nothing but despair. Complicated relationships with parents can ruin the lives of the children has been shown explicitly in the series.

Cloud grew up in a very strict household and she couldn't live up to the expectations of her parents eventually her getting pregnant brought even more troubles in her life. As shown in the previous season poor life choices by Cloud led her to jail several times and Tully grows up with her grandmother and moves in with her mom when she was a teenager and still could never get a mother-like figure in her life. The void makes her a lonely person who seemed to have a smile and a lot of acquaintances from outside but was holding onto Kate and their friendship as the only real human connection in her life.

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Kate also goes through emotional turmoil regarding her feelings for Johnny which has been the same since they got together. Kate was always overshadowed by Tully's presence in her life which always made her insecure about everything. But she didn't leave Tully's side ever because she felt incomplete without the friendship. Kate had grown up in a healthier environment with loving parents and a sibling. But her insecurities often got the better of her. Kate is a strict mom while Tully is the fun aunt to Marah. Marah shares the secrets of her life with Tully which also makes Kate doubt her capability as a mother.

But this time the narrative of Tully and her past, her ancestry and indomitable spirit stole the show, a little like their characters, Tully might have actually overshadowed Kate's narrative this time on the script as well. Katherine Heigl's performance was very convincing, it almost feels like there can be no Tully Hart without her. Watch the series on Netflix to find out what could be the huge occurrence that may have strained the ever-so-strong friendship between the two.

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