Firefly Lane Trivia | 30 facts about the Netflix series

Firefly Lane is a drama streaming television series created by Maggie Friedman for Netflix. It is based on the novel of the same name by Kristin Hannah.

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1. Firefly Lane is an American drama streaming TV series.
2. It was created by Maggie Friedman for Netflix.
3. The series is based on the novel of the same name by Kristin Hannah.
4. The series premiered on February 3, 2021.
5. It navigates the lives of two teenage girls in the 1970s, all the way through to their adulthood in the early 2000s.
6. In May 2021, the series was renewed for a second season.
7. In October 2022, it was announced that the second season will be its final season.
8. The second season consists of 16 episodes, and it was split into two parts.
9. The first part of the second season was released on December 2, 2022.
10. The second part is set to be released on June 8, 2023.
11. On February 22, 2019, it was announced that Netflix had given the production a series order for a first season consisting of ten episodes.
12. The series was created by Maggie Friedman who was also expected to executive produce alongside Stephanie Germain, Katherine Heigl, and Lee Rose.
13. Principal photography for the first season began on September 17, 2019, and ended on January 21, 2020, in Burnaby, British Columbia.
14. Vincent De Paula is the cinematographer for the series.
15. Filming for the second season began on August 30, 2021, and concluded on April 28, 2022.
16. The show is set in 1970, 1974, 1983, 2003 and 2005.
17. Based upon the 2008 book of the same title, by Kristin Hannah. The sequel is called Fly Away.
18. Katherine Heigl (Tully) was born in 1978 and Beau Garrett (who plays Tully’s mother Cloud) was born in 1982.
19. Chelah Horsdal (Margie) and Quinn Lord (Sean) also play mother and son in the Amazon series The Man In The High Castle (2015).
20. Both Sarah Chalke and Katherine Heigl were in medical TV shows produced by ABC. Chalke was in Scrubs (2001-2010) and Heigl was in Grey’s Anatomy (2005-).
21. Sarah Chalke also appears in Grey’s Anatomy as a concerned mother fighting for her child, although it’s in later seasons where Heigl doesn’t appear.
22. Katherine Heigl dyed her hair brown for the role
23. Ali Skovbye (Young Tully) and Yael Yurman (Marah) both had roles in the TV series Once Upon a Time
24. For the week of February 1 to 7, Firefly Lane was ranked number one in the Nielsen ratings, who announced that the show had been viewed for a total of 1.3 billion minutes.
25. The following week, it was ranked number one in the Nielsen ratings again, with a total of 1.288 billion minutes of viewing.
26. On April 20, 2021, Netflix announced that 49 million people watched the series in its first 28 days after its release.
27. For the first season, review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 47% based on 30 critic reviews, with an average rating of 5.53/10. The website’s critics consensus reads, “Firefly Lane has some solid ideas and a winning pair in Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke—if only the writing could live up to all that potential.”
28. Metacritic gave the first season a weighted average score of 57 out of 100 based on 21 critic reviews, indicating “mixed or average reviews”.
29. Judy Berman of Time wrote, “By most metrics, Firefly Lane is simply not a good show. Yet despite its many limitations, there’s something lovable about it.”
30. Joel Keller of Decider said, “The chemistry between Sarah Chalke and Katherine Heigl will carry Firefly Lane.”