The Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney's 'Normal People' is gently romantic, wise and sometimes sad — and made with the care that an adaptation of a beloved book deserves.
Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones play Connell and Marianne, the two closely bonded characters at the center of Sally Rooney's novelIt's a blessing to meet very special people when you're young and dumb. You'll get older either way, but without them, without how hard you will try to deserve them, how will you ever get less dumb?
The first real sign of their closeness is the depth of the wound they both eventually realize he's inflicted by assuming she understands why he doesn't want anyone to know he's sleeping with her. And so we stay with them, sometimes apart but mostly together, for the rest of high school, and through college.
It's hard to remember a 12-part series that has relied this heavily on scenes between two people, often in barely decorated, naturally lit gray-white bedrooms or quiet corners away from social gatherings. These two actors, Edgar-Jones and Mescal, both have the vulnerability it takes to maintain confidence in the depth of feeling that sustains the relationship.
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