Normal People (3 Viewers)

[7 - No tomorrow]

The discourse... I just can't anymore... It's completely ruined Irish porno Dawson's Creek for me...

Gaspar Noe's She's All That

 

[Cormcolash]

No war but class war

How Sally Rooney Gave Normal People Radical Politics

It's not easy to imagine a Marxist love story. But in Normal People, Sally Rooney shows how our personal relationships — and the troubles we encounter — are inextricably bound to the society around us.

jacobinmag.com

lol

Just seeing this post is enough to make me LOL, definitely don't need to even look at the article.

 

[pete]

three episodes in. jesus fucking christ this shit is BORING.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

It’s good. Very good. Ffs

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

It’s good. Very good. Ffs

How far you in?

 

[pete]

When I was a kid, only a handful of people I knew had a video recorder. Once in a blue moon you’d be invited in to someone’s house on a rainy afternoon to watch a movie. Usually they’d be your standard 80s action movies, or much more rarely a horror, but always something exciting that you’d never see on one of the 5 broadcast channels you got on cablelink.

So one afternoon one of the girls says “I’ve rented a video do you want to come in and watch it?” So of course we were all “yeah, deffo, great” and we all pile into the Donoghue sitting room and start watching some movie.

About 30 minutes in, no fights, no explosions, no aliens, no car chases, no shoot outs. Waiting for something to happen that never does - just some married american couple talking, and the growing realisation that this wasn’t a video like you’d normally get to see like Class of 99 or Remo Williams or Christine, this was something else.

And that’s what normal people reminds me of.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

When I was a kid, only a handful of people I knew had a video recorder. Once in a blue moon you’d be invited in to someone’s house on a rainy afternoon to watch a movie. Usually they’d be your standard 80s action movies, or much more rarely a horror, but always something exciting that you’d never see on one of the 5 broadcast channels you got on cablelink.

So one afternoon one of the girls says “I’ve rented a video do you want to come in and watch it?” So of course we were all “yeah, deffo, great” and we all pile into the Donoghue sitting room and start watching some movie.

About 30 minutes in, no fights, no explosions, no aliens, no car chases, no shoot outs. Waiting for something to happen that never does - just some married american couple talking, and the growing realisation that this wasn’t a video like you’d normally get to see like Class of 99 or Remo Williams or Christine, this was something else.

And that’s what normal people reminds me of.

Was it Ordinary People?

This does drag toward the back end alright, even with the short episodes.

 

[pete]

Was it Ordinary People?

This does drag toward the back end alright, even with the short episodes.

Honestly no idea.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

We watched ET huddled with about 30 other kids in our front room on a betamax tape we got from some guy that came around in a van

 

[David Kronenbourg]

How far you in?

4 eps. Just seen his mickey

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I wasn’t allowed watch 18s so used to watch shit like Videodrome and Robocop round my mates gaff. Blew my mind.

 

[Cormcolash]

Was it Ordinary People?

This does drag toward the back end alright, even with the short episodes.

Circle of Friends

 

[David Kronenbourg]

God it’s too fucking long isn’t it. 9 episodes and I wish it was done already. Still 3 to go!

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Could’ve wrapped it up in 6 episodes. Or a 90 minute film. Like what was the point of that Tuscany episode?

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

God it’s too fucking long isn’t it. 9 episodes and I wish it was done already. Still 3 to go!

They started to lose me toward the end alright.

Like what was the point of that Tuscany episode?

My guess was to showcase the class difference, it's the one time they really talk about it.

And to have a scene where they're riding bikes?

 

[Cormcolash]

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

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Yeah no I get all that but it just sapped the momentum from the show. It was going along at a decent pace and then suddenly we’re treated to a half an hour of bike rides and an excruciatingly long lunch scene. Like they could’ve wrapped that whole section up in 2 scenes. There was about 10 minutes alone of people just preparing food in that episode. The show lost me a bit after that. Same with the Sweden stuff. Boring and dragged out.

 

[rettucs]

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.

 

[pete]

It’s not shite it’s just boring (for me). Still only watched 3 episodes though.

 

[Lili Marlene]

God it’s too fucking long isn’t it. 9 episodes and I wish it was done already. Still 3 to go!

Fairly sure I read the book in less time than it takes to watch it.

Still haven't started this, whoops. My mother thinks it's very good though.