Marriage and motherhood take centerstage in this adaptation. Without giving anything away, the show - if you read the book, you'll notice some changes to the original work - is about complexity of being a woman, mother, and friend. We're presented with vicious competitiveness, pain, facade, rage, shame, vulnerability, and self-knowledge wrapped in a beautiful setting of California's Golden Coast. It is about the surface and what lies beneath...
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