Big Little Lies gave birth to a modern soapy TV subgenre in which beautiful moms with seemingly ideal lives—handsome spouses, plenty of money, opulent homes, swanky vacations and parties, lovely children—turn out to have deep, dark secrets which involve jealousy, betrayal, infidelity, and deception, and which lead to, among other things, abuse, abduction, and murder.
Paramount+’s six-episode Little Disasters, premiering Dec. 11,doesn’t deviate from that formula, squeezing pulpy melodrama from the story of a picture-perfect mother who arrives at a hospital with her sick infant, only to have her best friend, a nurse, determine that the kid is the potential victim of a crime. Sudsy beyond belief, it’s another tale of upper-middle-class dysfunction, and one whose twists and turns are almost as laughable as its climactic value judgments.
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