Normal People (1 Viewer)

[ann post]

Furthermore to my previous rantings I too have seen people on twitter raving about it. I'm not sure the timing could have been better, lock everyone in their houses for a few weeks, remove the basics like a social pint or a catch up over a cup of tea, disrupt family dynamics, relationships, close the colleges and then broadcast a mundane college romance montague/capulet box ticker. I don't know what actually happens in it but I've seen very little to confirm it isn't the above. Obvs the producers and writers could never have predicted such a turn in society but inadvertantaly made the hook it to my veins banality we all need right now.

Please read this exact point in the guardian / IT opinions column and refer me to it.

 

[Unicron]

I'm still in the middle reading it intermittently. Basically hoping to stay ahead of the telly. It's got the *students says something ludicrously posturing and intellectual* thing down anyway,

 

[Anthony]

My wife started watching this and I caught half an episode. Seemed ok. A bit boring and sincere. Normal People, Good Looking People more like.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

christ, people on twitter saying its the most amazing thing ever. People here saying its shite.

I'm in the 'its shite' camp, despite not having seen it or having read the book.

I get it that people can like different stuff. But this is as polarising as shit gets.

I think it's neither of those. It's a well made modern romantic drama, with nuanced performances and a good bit of riding but it's waaaaaaaay too long. 7/10

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

There was about 10 minutes alone of people just preparing food in that episode.

It's written by a woman.
You are going to see more food stuff in female-centred fiction.
If you read the Hunger Games novels, every day she talks about what she's eating and what she's wearing. And then gets on to the killing.

 

[Cormcolash]

Yeah no I get all that but it just sapped the momentum from the show.

LOL that's some fuckin job anyway

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Furthermore to my previous rantings I too have seen people on twitter raving about it. I'm not sure the timing could have been better, lock everyone in their houses for a few weeks, remove the basics like a social pint or a catch up over a cup of tea, disrupt family dynamics, relationships, close the colleges and then broadcast a mundane college romance montague/capulet box ticker. I don't know what actually happens in it but I've seen very little to confirm it isn't the above. Obvs the producers and writers could never have predicted such a turn in society but inadvertantaly made the hook it to my veins banality we all need right now.

Please read this exact point in the guardian / IT opinions column and refer me to it.

Yeah, it has a 'captive' audience - so to speak.
Also, people want to like it, because the book was popular with tastemakers.
It's prestige stuff and gets the benefit of a welcoming audience.
On our end of Twitter, that skews Irish, people are mostly in the bag for it.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

it makes dublin look like a cool european multicultural city full of mad hotties.

 

[Cormcolash]

Instead of the wretched hive of scum and villainy that we all know it is

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Finished. Thank god I never have to think about this show again

 

[Jill Hives]

It's obviously to show that he's so poor and lower class that he can only afford to go on holiday to Tuscany

That’s not how I saw it at all. I’m not saying it’s greatest story in the world but I feel it’s a bit deeper than just that. That episode ties into the last one for me.

 

[Cormcolash]

Yeah I was having a laugh there

 

[Unicron]

Still on the book. It is grand.

 

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[Lili Marlene]

Finished. Thank god I never have to think about this show again

Team behind Normal People adapting Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends

Conversations with Friends is up next.

www.digitalspy.com

 

[ann post]

Team behind Normal People adapting Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends

Conversations with Friends is up next.

www.digitalspy.com

The usual pattern is that series 2 gets announced, and soon after book 3 gets announced, right?

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Team behind Normal People adapting Sally Rooney's Conversations with Friends

Conversations with Friends is up next.

www.digitalspy.com

NOOOOOOOOOO! Just because one thing from an author makes a successful film/show doesn’t mean you literally have to make everything else by them. It’s the Stephen King effect. They will adapt any old garbage he scribbled down because his name is on it

 

[Lili Marlene]

I bet they'll manage to squeeze a christmas special out of her AWARD WINNING SHORT STORY Mr. Salary as well.


And by "I bet" I mean it's set at christmas so it will happen this year.

 

[ann post]

And by "I bet" I mean it's set at christmas so it will happen this year.

Hyped for the socially distanced woke mickey scene.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Hyped for the socially distanced woke mickey scene.

I'm wondering if there'll be a grunge-like mass-signings/adaptation of all the young, sad Irish girl authors who have followed in Rooney's wake - Nicole Flattery, Naoise Dolan, there's probably more I've missed. Life awash with meaningless sex and crippling depression, it's never been better to be Irish!