Inside ‘Defending Jacob,’ ‘Little Fires Everywhere,’ ‘Mrs. Fletcher’s’ Adaptations’ New Endings
Elaine Low Senior TV WriterThe art of adapting a novel into a television series is a tricky business, one that involves speaking to the audience that has already read the book while also drawing in viewers who have not. Several limited series this season took the additional step of tweaking the endings of those stories, some to infuse an element of surprise and others to add layers of complexity.In bringing Celeste Ng’s “Little Fires Everywhere” to life at Hulu, showrunner Liz Tigelaar decided that the series, about two women in pursuit of vastly different familial ideals, needed a new arsonist at its climax.