![]() ![]() It’s Twilight for people who are too cynical to get swept away by the bland naiveté of stories like Twilight. They’re two specific people from specific circumstances that both draw them together and keep them from fully realizing their bond. ![]() Connell and Marianne aren’t generic young people in love. The TV adaptation of Normal People, a 12-episode coproduction between streaming service Hulu and the BBC, is faithful to the novel in many ways, but especially in tone: not unsentimental, but authentic to the nuances and contradictions of sentiment. Normal People takes place over a tumultuous half-decade for its central pair, transforming them from confused kids to still-confused, slightly older kids. Conversations With Friends has its heroines get up close and personal with a slightly older couple they admire, allowing them to observe the 30-somethings’ foibles firsthand. In fact, Rooney’s books are often about characters acquiring that perspective through experience. (Both Normal People, her sophomore effort, and 2017 debut Conversations With Friends follow students at Trinity, Rooney’s alma mater.) She’s also distant enough from her teenage years to refract that intensity through the perspective of time and maturity. At just 29 years old, literary wunderkind Sally Rooney is young enough to remember and channel the intensity of adolescent emotion. ![]() ![]() How They Made It: The TV Adaptation of ‘Normal People’īut while Normal People may be about teens, it’s distinctly for adults. ![]()
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