Firefly Lane (2021–2023) User Reviews (459)

Netflix adaptation of Fire Fly Lane is Near Perfection.

[lornak-18008 · 9/10 · 5 February 2021]

I just finished binging this over a 24 hour period and honestly loved the whole thing. Having grown up in the 60's and 70's, I found it a realistic representation of that time period as well as the years past that. I had read the book and I spent way too much time waiting for certain events to happen before I realized there has to be another season. I wasn't sure about the casting at first, but in the end I thought the two main stars were perfect for their roles.

My problem is with some of the reviewers who freely admit to only watching a couple of episodes or in one case fifteen minutes. To admit this and then rate the show low doesn't seem fair-especially when it did take a bit to sort out all the characters, storylines and and time periods. Personally I had no problem with the timelines shifting back and forth. I get it, not everyone likes that in a show, and everyone has their own ideas of how it should be done. I was happy with it. Not only was I happy, I can't wait for season 2!

A knock on your face heartwarming series

[mel-baker7 · 9/10 · 11 January 2023]

So many times this series hit spots of my own trauma at various times that caused me to rethink my values or where I sit with that in society. Not many series looks at life from a female perspective of friendship for decades, I can relate on various levels but also not as I've never experienced a best friend over such a long period of life. This series looks at the ups and downs of life in relationships and working careers, as well as how we grow with these over decades. How responsibility grows with this as an adult. I am not a parent, but I feel the emotions of people who have been raped as trauma at any early life (I've experienced that) and how that can impact you as you grow, and how always being the person who pleases people because you don't want to upset them in a marriage (that speaks into my marriage that broke down), and how do you weigh career in life versus personal feelings - no one ever gives you the rule book on this. This series speaks into various people's lives male and female, gay or straight from a perspective that many people go through. Cant't wait to see what season 3 brings.

Made me feel all the feels

[yffzbmcdy · 9/10 · 24 May 2023]

Not sure how my review will do this show justice but here we go... We follow Tully and Kate over 3 different timelines - as teenagers, as 20-30 somethings, in their 40s - with each decade's storyline cleverly intertwining across each episode. The timeline jumps around but it is so well done that it isn't confusing like some shows.

The casting is brilliant, Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke work beautifully together, as do the younger actresses cast to play their teenage selves.

And yes I cried. I don't think I got through a single episode in the second half of season 2 without bawling. I had read the book so I knew what was coming but seeing it all on screen made it even more emotional.

I also cried at the lack of a Kate/Tully relationship in my own life. Never had a friendship like they do in the show and that made me sad.

All in all a fantastic programme that will make you laugh, cry and reflect on your own life.

Oh and Dancing Queen will never sound the same again.

Sobbing at the end and so moved by the beauty . . .

[sandpark-70052 · 10/10 · 2 May 2023]

Wish I could give an 11 or 12 rating for this series. I feel like I lived along with them and cared so much about everyone in the series that I was sobbing by the end. Outstanding performances by each cast member made this book come alive. I read the books, but really feel that the series was even better. Even with the gap in viewing it, I was able to pick up with the characters this week from where they left off. I have friends that are "Tullys" and friends that are "Kate". The depiction of the timeless deep love they have for each other was so moving. Bottom line message: Women need other women in their lives.

Thank you to everyone who put this impactful series together.

Firefly Lane girls 4ever!!!

[idreamofidee · 10/10 · 2 May 2023]

Finished season 2, crying and unashamed. This is such a brilliant and heartfelt series, with incredible acting from the two leads - particularly Katherine Heigl who embodies Tully so wholeheartedly.

The series has ended with season 2, and it felt like yhe end, not rushed or unfinished. It's so strange, but I will miss following their story as I truly felt like I got to know the girls (who became women) and understood their motivations and many of their decisions. It was great to feel a part of their lives.

Will try Virgin River and Sweet Magnolias at some point, as they seem to be dramas in a similar vein. Will be hard to live up to though, Firefly Lane was a hard show to say goodbye to.

Binged all of season 1

[jasarrubbo · 10/10 · 4 February 2021]

This is absolutely perfect in every way. The 80's flashbacks are spot on and full of nostalgia, and all the flashbacks caused no confusion it is done so well. Katherine Haigel and Sarah Chalke are perfect together, chemistry is amazing! Love everything about it. It is funny, sad, devastating, and so relatable!

10 out of 10

[redhead-34459 · 10/10 · 6 February 2021]

Absolutely loved this show....cannot wait for Season 2......

It is so well done, the characters were well rounded and believable....flaws and all ....and I loved the fashion and the music.......seriously good watching👍🏻👏👏👏

Heigl is great-could this be the lift she needs

[lasasala · 8 December 2022]

This is a lovely show about friendship. Charming, sweet, it hits all the high notes.

Heigl is great. She really is such a good actor. Sarah Chalke puts in a solid performance-a little too cutesy.

Some of the script is a little too trite. I hated the stupid Manhattan clothing try-on montage. It made Chalke look so dopey. I wish screenwriters would stop with that stuff; it is so overdone.

Is it wrong to think of this as the Beaches of 2020s?

We haven't had a good friendship story in a long, long time. I did read one of the books in the series and the Netflix series does do a good job of interpreting the novel.

If you read the book you will probably be disappointed.

[cjmantoni · 6/10 · 4 February 2021]

I have mixed feelings about this show. I LOVED this book. Absolutely loved it! They really went a different direction with show. Not really worse, just different. The main difference for me was Kate and Johnny's relationship. They were madly in love in the book, I was disappointed to see them on the verge of divorce in the show! However, Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke were perfect for Tully and Kate.

I love this so much!

[nat_mt · 10/10 · 4 February 2021]

What a wonderful, moving series about the love story of two best friends and soul mates. Sad in places, I love the changes through the years 70's, 80's and early 2000's. Wonderful costumes, lovingly crafted characters, powerful stories about life, loss, love and mostly friendship and the family we choose! I cannot recommend enough and looking forward to series 2 as it finished on a bit of a cliff hanger- I couldn't believe I had finished the series in less than a day and I work!

What can a friendship not survive? You would never know this season!

[dax-87-757053 · 7/10 · 8 February 2021]

It sucks, when you watch 10 episodes for real friendship about two girls. They come always together after a fight. And in the last episode you see them shattered. What happened?! You will never know.(only when you read the book) or in 2. season.

Love this show

[sudiniup · 10/10 · 4 February 2021]

I needed a story and characters I could get lost in and enjoy. Firefly Lane delivers and its fun watching as the storyline unfolds.

Not fair.

[rebekahrox · 7/10 · 7 February 2021]

Great show until the final episode where we are left with a bombshell development that comes out of nowhere and lots of loose ends. I understand leaving some questions to build a new season with but this was way too much. Would have been a 9 or 10. Sucks.

PS. I read some reviews of the book to get an idea of what happened. I am going to avoid season 2 like the plague and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Just.. why

[sarahsun82 · 2/10 · 14 February 2021]

Maybe if this was created twenty years ago it would have been barely passable (only out of sheer relevance in the setting) but I honestly do not know what possessed these people to make this show in 2021. It is all so irrelevant. I didn't mind the flashbacks as other reviewers commented - if anything I felt they added a bit of dimension to an otherwise drab story (and a welcome change in the cast). Unbelievable and unlikable characters. Overacting and just an overall string of cliches. I fast forwarded through so many scenes that were simply unwatchably cringey. Sarah Chalke has three facial expressions and Katherine Heigl is simply not convincing as the power beauty queen she is made out to be- casting could have been so much better if instead of famous they had gone for actors that match the descriptions but then nobody would watch it and it would still ultimately not save this trainwreck. No redeeming supporting characters either.

There are so many shows about female friendship out there with so much more depth - this depiction is just so dated, shallow and boring that I cannot for the life of me understand why it was released now.

Loved it! Top 10 favorite!

[karaq · 10/10 · 6 February 2021]

Really loved this show and will be anxiously waiting for season 2! Acting is great and it is fun to watch Katherine Heigl again! I thought the chemistry between alI the characters was spot on. The actors that play Tully and Kate as teenagers are fabulous. I do think the writing lacked a tiny bit, but it did not stop me from enjoying the show and being entertained. The back and forth between past and present is well done and not confusing. Binge worthy!

OMG I never cry this much before

[ciliaengelbrektsen-37555 · 10/10 · 8 May 2023]

I loved this show. It is funny, and its serious, and its real :-) It is very well played by the leading roles, and it has been long since I laughed out loud so much, and I do not think that I have ever cried as hard and much as I did through the last episodes of season 2. I actially had to watch the last 2 episodes over many days, because I could not stand crying so much :-)

Its a wonderful story about the kind of friendship we all wish we had. Some are lucky enough to have experienced it, others may experience it through this fantastic story. And its about how different we can be as human beings, and still find each other.

Thank you to the writers and to the cast for giving me a really great time watching.

Truly incredible

[lisa-nguyenvh · 10/10 · 30 April 2023]

This show was incredible.

First of all the cast is great, beautiful female leads, representative of real women, not just dolled up and botoxed. They cast women and men of the right age to play the right part.

You could see the acting sometimes was just true feelings, i mean towards the end those tears just felt true.

I have not read the books so i cannot compare the two but damn the show was good.

This show has brought me to tears, it made me laugh, it goes through so many stages of life. I feel you can realate to the show because even if you haven't lived the same things, the base of life is still the same and shenanigans are still the same.

I got really attached to the characters even if each one were sometimes annoying, they were just portrayed as real people that are not always stable and that's life.

I just loved it!

A great TV show

[QTrocks-2011 · 10/10 · 28 April 2023]

I loved this show. I wasn't too sure on the first episode but it just got better and better. So emotional and such good chemistry between the actors. Definitely worth a watch! The best acting I've seen from Katherine Heigl, the part was made for her. Enough time was spent on developing the characters that you actually care what happens to them, unlike many other shows I have watched. The editing was great, flicking seamlessly between different times and the use of the same actors was fine as they used different hairstyles etc to show the different times. Top show, definitely recommend you watch it!

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME!

[kfrey-60462 · 27 February 2021]

Full of cliches, hard to follow time jumps from present to past, and bad parenting! When a scene starts, you know what's going to happen in the end! The supposedly funny parts have all been done before and again you know the outcome so they're not funny.

Easy To Walk Away

[lrichmond-91255 · 6/10 · 19 November 2022]

This series starts out interesting and engaging unfortunately it doesn't stay that way. I've walked alway numerous times with no desire to return until I'm bored and with nothing else to watch. The frequent sex scenes are predictable, redundant and unnecessary fillers. I would've enjoyed the story more without them. The storyline is good but the constant interruptions is annoying and made my interest lessen. The actors are perfect for their roles and performed well. My last perception is, if you don't like jumping from the characters 3 different stages of life, then don't watch this. It's a constant back and forth.

Brilliant

[stitch87 · 10/10 · 27 April 2023]

There's far too many "saw it coming, it's been done before, oh those characters were annoying" reviews.... I personally thoroughly enjoyed Firefly lane, I enjoyed it all! I thought the writing and the storyline was beautifully done, I felt connected with the characters. The actors/actresses really impressed! It was fun, loving, cringey, heartbreaking, annoying... everything I wanted from it! A tale of love and true friendship right until the end!! This is my own opinion, and rather than listen to those of others, you make up your own mind I found a good feeling from this programme and I WILL watch it again. Loved it! How the story rolls out, great imagination behind it. Top marks from me.

So predictable!

[alice-e-vanness · 6/10 · 5 December 2022]

The first season was cute but idk what happened second season!

In literally every episode I saw the drama coming: oh the parents are going to walk in, oh she's not pregnant, oh they will miss each other here, oh the guys not actually dead, oh he's gonna show the photo.

So predictable!

Every single episode.

Plus why are we learning about Theo? We know Kate ended up with the other guy?! Sorry don't care.

Such a waste of space.

Plus the cuts between times are stupid and contrived.

I don't have much else to say cause this show is like chewing gum for you brain. I can feel my IQ lowering with each episode.

Besties

[xocuddlebugxo · 10/10 · 6 February 2021]

This is such a good show. I laughed, I cried, it reminds me of the bond and when I say bond with my best friend I mean -> we are closer than sisters. I remember reading this book. Katherine Hiegel is a great actress and so is Sarah Chalke. The portrayal of besties growing up makes you smile and think about yours. Have tissues there's sad parts. It's a great show to watch with your bestie, hell even if your best is a guy. just watch it. Oh season 2 please :)

Long Hallmark movie

[alinafin101 · 6/10 · 15 February 2021]

It starts off strong, but then disintegrates into sappy stereotypical hallmark movie. The actors for both the adult and the teen characters of Tully and Kate are the only thing that kept me watching. Heigl, Chalke, Skovbye, and Curtis ate GREAT! Otherwise, whiplash between decades, cliche or way too on-the-nose parallels and situations, uneven direction etc made me roll my eyes way too often. I also didn't realize it was an actual series, not a limited run. Soooo, now I have to consider whether I cut my losses or continue to roll my eyes in the second season.

Awful writing and acting

[williamkimbrell · 1/10 · 7 March 2021]

My wife started watching and I sat through it since I was there and nothing else to do. I wish I had spent it doing ANYTHING else. The writing was juvenile and still trying to understand why they were friends for all those years and more so why this was supposed to be interesting. The acting was even worse. Did some of these actors get their roles only because no one else wanted them? Ben Lawson the biggest culprit of horrendous acting. I am unsure how he got this role. His acting was some of the worst I have ever seen. The show proved to me that with so many channels, they have to fill the time with anything they can. I can't recommend anyone waste anytime on this poorly thrown together series. I will give them a thumbs up on being consistent. Consistent with bad writing, casting and acting.