Tiny Beautiful Things (miniseries)

The show centers on Clare, a writer who reluctantly becomes a popular advice columnist during a period of turmoil in her life. ==Cast and characters==

Main • Kathryn Hahn as Clare Pierce • Sarah Pidgeon as younger Clare • Quentin Plair as Danny Kincade, Clare's husband • Tanzyn Crawford as Rae Kincade, Clare and Danny's daughter Recurring • Michaela Watkins as Amy Adler, Clare's friend • Owen Painter as younger Lucas, Clare's younger brother • Nick Stahl as older Lucas • Tijuana Ricks as Mel Green, Clare and Danny's couples therapist • Merritt Wever as Frankie Pierce, Clare's late mother • Elizabeth Hinkler as Shan, receptionist at the nursing home • Julien Marlon Samani as Zach Charles, an uber driver • Johnny Berchtold as Jess, Clare's first husband • Aneasa Yacoub as Montana, Rae's friend • Marlow Barkley as Little Clare ==Episodes==

Cheryl Strayed had discussed adapting her book of essays Tiny Beautiful Things with Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon while they worked together making the 2014 film Wild, adapted from Strayed's memoir. Liz Tigelaar serves as series creator and writer on the project which is being produced by ABC Signature and Hello Sunshine. Tigelaar is also executive producer, alongside Witherspoon, Dern, Lauren Neustadter, Stacey Silverman, Jayme Lemons, Cheryl Strayed, and Kathryn Hahn. Tigelaar described the show as depicting an alternate version of Strayed "that hadn't hiked the Pacific Crest Trail" in Wild. Hahn was revealed to be playing the role of Clare when it was announced for Hulu in June 2022. In August 2022, Sarah Pidgeon and Tanzyn Crawford were added to the cast. ==Release==

The series was released on Hulu on April 7, 2023. It also premiered on Disney+ in international territories. In India, the series premiered on Disney+ Hotstar on April 9, 2023. ==Reception==

Critical response 's performance garnered critical acclaim and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 85% approval rating with an average rating of 7.6/10, based on 40 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Tiny Beautiful Things is littered with cumbersome narrative choices, but Kathryn Hahn's soulful performance is one big plus that keeps this adaptation firmly compelling." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 73 out of 100 based on 14 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Joel Keller of Decider asserted, "Kathryn Hahn makes Tiny Beautiful Things a compelling watch, mainly because she's so good at playing someone barely holding things together. But the rest of the series, especially the flashback sequences, give us a pretty full picture of why her character continues to spiral." Taylor Gates of Collider, gave the series a grade of A−, praised the performance of Kathryn Hahn, and complimented the humor of the series, writing, "Tiny Beautiful Things uses specificity to offer commentary on universal experiences and has the unique ability to strip the most complex topics down into their simplest, most resonant parts. And so for that, I have to say: Thank you." Accolades The series was one of 200 television series that received the ReFrame Stamp for the years 2022 to 2023. The stamp is awarded by the gender equity coalition ReFrame and industry database IMDbPro for film and television projects that are proven to have gender-balanced hiring, with stamps being awarded to projects that hire female-identifying people, especially women of color, in four out of eight key roles for their production. ==References==