‘Little Disasters’ Stars Diane Kruger & Jo Joyner Answer Our Most Burning Questions (VIDEO)
What To Know
- The stars of the show break down key scenes in Little Disasters.
- Plus, book author Sarah Vaughan weighs in on some of the narrative and stylistic choices of the adaptation.
[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for Little Disasters.]
The title of this series (and the book upon which it’s based) undersells the drama a bit because Little Disasters involves some pretty big catastrophes by the end.
The series centers on a distressed mother named Jess (Diane Kruger) who brings her 10-month-old daughter to the emergency room for an unexplained illness and discovers that the baby has a skull fracture. The child’s doctor, Liz (Jo Joyner), is a close mom group friend, but she still calls social services on her as a result of the unexplained injury out of a sense of duty.
Though Jess maintains neither she nor her husband Ed (JJ Feild) would ever harm the child, her defensive behavior — and a remarkably bad decision to take the child from the hospital, against police orders — lead the detectives to prosecute her and give her only strictly supervised visitation to any of her children. Meanwhile, her other closest friends, Charlotte (Shelley Conn) and Mel (Emily Taaffe), begin to turn on her as well, and it seems that the world is crumbling down around her.
At Jess’ bail hearing, though, Liz steps up to help by offering to take responsibility for Jess in her own home ahead of the full trial. After that, the horrific truth of what happened to baby Betsey is finally revealed. Jess and Ed were indeed innocent of abuse, and it was instead Mel’s husband, Rob (Stephen Campbell Moore), who let the baby fall and threatened little Frankie into being silent about what really happened, too, when Jess had stepped out to get her baby some teething medicine.
In the end, Betsey pulled through from her injuries in good health, celebrating her first birthday with an intimate party, with Liz, Charlotte, and a newly single Mel all at her side. There are still some major question marks about whether this core group of mom friends can ever truly recover from this controversy and why they did some of the things they did to one another.
To get answers to some of our biggest burning questions, then, we spoke to author Sarah Vaughan and series stars Diane Kruger and Jo Joyner in the video interview above.
Little Disasters, Paramount+
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