{"id":31914,"date":"2023-04-07T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1812912"},"modified":"2023-04-07T09:50:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T07:50:25","slug":"tiny-beautiful-things-has-all-the-makings-of-a-tearjerker-but-falls-short","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/tiny-beautiful-things-has-all-the-makings-of-a-tearjerker-but-falls-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Beautiful Things has all the makings of a tearjerker but falls short"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new Disney Plus series stars Kathryn Hahn as slightly chaotic advice columnist Clare, but the heartfelt series lacks direction. <\/p>

By Morgan Cormack\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 07 April 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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From the offset, Tiny Beautiful Things<\/a> aims to be the kind of tender, moving and mildly funny drama that wants you to reflect and look inwards at your own interpersonal relationships.<\/p>\n

It essentially nudges you to shed a tear as we explore Clare\u2019s (Kathryn Hahn) life as a mother-turned-advice-columnist, and bear witness to her shortcomings, failures and flashbacks to her own tumultuous relationship with her mother Frankie. And you want to, you really do.<\/p>\n

Tiny Beautiful Things has all the makings of a heartfelt tearjerker and definitely tugs at the heartstrings.\u00a0As a series, its intentions are clear. But unfortunately, as is often the case of dramas that try a little bit too<\/em> hard in this manner, it falls short at being able to pull it off.<\/p>\n

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Kathryn Hahn and Merritt Wever in Tiny Beautiful Things.<\/span><\/figcaption> Disney Plus<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Adapted by Reese Witherspoon\u2019s Hello Sunshine productions from the bestselling book by Cheryl Strayed (Wild), the series follow\u2019s Hahn\u2019s character as she navigates her own crumbling relationship with husband Danny, her daughter Rue and her new-found calling as an advice columnist. The original book is a collection of advice columns from Strayed\u2019s own past as \u2018Dear Sugar\u2019, the anonymous columnist that Clare becomes in the series.<\/p>\n

When presented with the opportunity to take over the column from a friend, Clare couldn\u2019t be more confused and dismissive but soon takes to writing lengthy responses to strangers and in doing so, manages to glean advice from her own shortcomings.<\/p>\n

We follow her as she thinks fondly of her mother, what she learnt from her (hindsight is a beautiful thing) and what she wishes she could\u2019ve told her before she passed away. Her memories of her are so vivid that the line between past and present is often blurred throughout the eight episodes, flitting from flashbacks to Clare as a mouthy 22-year-old to now, as a chaotic mother that seems to always be running around.<\/p>\n