Firefly LaneTV-show · 2021
If you live for a good 'found family' story and friendships that feel like soulmates, this one's for you. Get ready for a total emotional rollercoaster following Tully and Kate, two besties whose bond spans literally decades, from awkward '70s teens to complex adults. This show is peak friendship goals, serving up all the nostalgia and then ripping your heart out with a betrayal you won't see coming. Plus, the retro fashion is everything, and Ben Lawson as Johnny Ryan? Yeah, we're not okay.
Firefly Lane chronicles the decades-long friendship between two vastly different women, Tully Hart and Kate Mularkey. From their formative teenage years in the 1970s to their forties, the series navigates their complex journey through life's challenges, career highs and lows, and evolving relationships. Tully is the ambitious, free-spirited talk show host, while Kate is the more reserved, family-oriented journalist. Their unbreakable bond faces its ultimate test when a significant betrayal threatens to tear them apart. The show masterfully weaves through different timelines, revealing how their shared history profoundly shapes their present.
What could possibly have ended the tight-knit thirty year friendship of Tully and Kate, our "Firefly Lane Girls Forever"? We'll learn the answer this season -- but first -- Kate grapples with the painful aftermath of Johnny's ill-fated trip to Iraq, while Tully faces a lawsuit after walking away from her talk show, and must start her career over from the bottom. This leads her to search for answers about who she is and where she comes from -- including a quest to find the father she never met, against the wishes of her secretive hippie mother, Cloud. In the '80s, we see Kate and Johnny first fall in love, creating more than a little drama in the newsroom where they work, as Tully's career rises and she spars (and flirts!) with cocky sportscaster Danny Diaz. She just might have met her match -- that is, if they can stop arguing for five minutes. While in the '70s, teenage Kate and Tully struggle to keep their friendship together as Cloud goes to jail for dealing drugs and Tully goes to live with her grandmother, far away from Firefly Lane. As the girls face the tumult of high school apart, they know the one thing they really need is each other.
