I had a free weekend of a bunch of stuff including Hulu from Comcast and I stumbled upon this yesterday and binge watched all 8. Man what a great show, Kerry Washington was really good in this, I'm not a huge Witherspoon fan but it surprised me how well she played her part and yet Washington was so good. I also thought the 16 year old who played Pearl(her name is Lexi something or other I googled her) was terrific. I think she's going to have a very good career in acting if she chooses to.
This is not normally the type of show I like but man I watched this nonstop, my girlfriend is binge watching an Australian show off Acorn that has like 9 seasons so I couldn't convince her to watch this with me.
I have a friend I used to work with who reminds me very much of the Elena character, she's a nice person but she doesn't get how she had a sheltered life and she views everything through that lens.
I thought the argument with her and Mia when Mia said you didn't make good choices, you HAD good choices to make, or choose from(I forget how she said it) was just brilliant. Absolutely perfect it's easier to make good choices when you have money, a nice home, a husband supporting you etc. Criticizing someone who's poor as being a bad mother and making bad choices is easy, but as Mia said you had good options to choose from, I didn't(and neither did the Chinese woman).
