Hulu’s Tiny Stunning Issues begins off with a bang… and a thud… and an expletive, as Kathryn Hahn‘s drunken Clare crawls by way of a window to interrupt into her own residence. Why, you ask? Nicely, her life is totally and completely falling aside.
Impressed by Cheryl Strayed’s assortment of essays of the identical title, the eight-episode restricted sequence follows Clare Pierce as she takes over the Pricey Sugar recommendation column. However earlier than that occurs, we witness a confluence of Clare’s interpersonal, skilled and familial life that depicts nothing in need of break: She’s been kicked out of her home by her husband Danny (Welcome to Chippendales‘ Quentin Plair) — therefore the drunken break in — and her daughter Rae (Willow‘s Tanzyn Crawford) can’t actually have a dialog together with her with out rolling her eyes. With no place else to go, Clare resorts to sleeping on the retirement neighborhood the place she works, secretly sharing a room with an aged resident till she is reprimanded and positioned on go away.
Clare tries to manage by looking for solace in recommendation column Pricey Sugar, however she quickly discovers it’s a sham. Her pal, a mean white man and not the exceptional, doting lady she envisioned all alongside, has been writing the column. He then bestows Pricey Sugar duties unto Clare, considering she’d be a greater match for the job — ya know, regardless of all of the proof suggesting in any other case.
However what initially set off Clare’s undoing? She gave Rae’s school fund away to her youthful brother, Lucas, to save lots of their childhood house with out first consulting Danny. The marrieds attend {couples} remedy, however Clare doesn’t totally purchase into the method. She doesn’t belief their therapist, Mel, who wonders aloud whether or not Clare’s instability is because of latent anxieties about her decaying magnificence as she approaches 50. Clare additionally suspects that Danny is likely to be sleeping with Mel, so she goes and hooks up together with her Uber driver. That triggers flashbacks into her previous, together with a unique, heroin-fueled hookup.
Extra flashbacks reveal that Clare has confronted private turmoil for a lot of her life. We comply with her youthful self (performed by The Wilds‘ Sarah Pidgeon), Lucas (The Handmaid’s Story‘s Owen Painter) and her mom, Frankie (Nurse Jackie‘s Merritt Wever), who was recognized with most cancers when Clare was 22. Throughout a ultimate voiceover, she encourages a Pricey Sugar reader to relish in life’s tiny, lovely issues. (Hey, that’s the title of the present!) She needs she had executed the identical when her mother was nonetheless alive. And within the ultimate body, we see Clare within the current day, exterior her house once more. She’s a complete mess and stands alone, clutching a stack of letters addressed to Sugar.
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