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Normal People on BBC3

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Bouledeneige · 27/04/2020 20:05

Binge watched it yesterday and loved it. Emotional, passionate and two really great leads. Thoroughly recommend it (so long as you don't mind lots of love scenes). Cried lie and felt bereft when it finished.

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covetingthepreciousthings · 27/04/2020 20:14

I'm going to start watching tonight, I'm looking forward to it as heard lots of good stuff.

It's based on a book isn't it?

ProggyMat · 27/04/2020 20:20

Binge watched 4 episodes last night with DD(16) and planning to do the same tonight
We both loved it and found it very thought provoking

Supersimkin2 · 27/04/2020 21:44

Shit, isn't it. Both leads are naked non-stop, which is odd, because it''s a story about conversation.

The school sex scenes are a bit cheeky paedo. All that softcore lighting and cut to school uniform...

EachandEveryone · 27/04/2020 21:48

I hated the book felt too old for it. Im not sure if i will watch.

TatianaBis · 27/04/2020 21:55

It was like a shit Grange Hill. I got bored.

Supersimkin2 · 27/04/2020 22:03

Youporn Grange Hill! Exactly.

But Grange Hill was great.

Splenetic · 27/04/2020 22:05

I had mixed feelings about the novel, and while I like Lenny Abrahamson, liked what it looked like, and thought the casting was good, once you take out the prose and the alternating interior monologues, it does risk just being the tale of two self-absorbed teenagers grappling in and out of their school uniforms.

Splenetic · 27/04/2020 22:08

But have only seen the first two episodes. Perhaps the Trinity episodes improve. Though I get a bit tired of Sally Romney’s thin, cool, jolie-laide, chainsmoking student heroines. Marianne in Normal People is pretty much a straight copy of Bobbi from Conversations With Friends.

TatianaBis · 27/04/2020 22:10

Grange Hill was ace. Funny and natural.

This was po-faced, self regarding and slightly excruciating. Plus Connor looks the same age as his mum.

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Bouledeneige · 27/04/2020 22:13

I understand what you're saying but the Trinity scenes switch the dynamics and it does become more tense and worrying. It's not War and Peace but it's compelling. I'm 56 and been on my own for a while and it made me fall in love with falling in love. If you know what I mean. Sad maybe. But I like a compelling love story. now and again between pretending I'm all high brow and serious

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Splenetic · 27/04/2020 22:15

Connell’s mother is supposed to look very young, though — she had him at seventeen, and all his friends fancy her. I struggled with her not being blonde, as the novel stresses that she’s very fair and soft-looking, while Connell is dark and hard-faced (presumably resembling his unknown father).

EdwinaMay · 27/04/2020 22:16

Just watched the lot.
Really good. I think the later episodes were better. Great acting.

TatianaBis · 27/04/2020 22:16

I don’t think his mum is supposed to look like his wife.

Figuregettingbigger · 27/04/2020 22:21

I just watched the first two episodes on bbc1. Does anyone know when the rest of it is due to be aired? I don't have access to the iplayer.

HollyBollyBooBoo · 27/04/2020 22:21

Was so looking forward to this but the first 2 episodes are dull as shit.

Splenetic · 27/04/2020 22:22

The actress, Sarah Greene is 36, so she’s roughly the right age for Lorraine. The guy who plays Connell is a bit older than his character at 24, though.

disorganisedsecretsquirrel · 27/04/2020 22:52

Brilliant, fantastic dialogue, amazing acting. Deep, intense , at times genuinely erotic and quirky.

If all you see is 'paedo sex' ... I think it says more about you than the series.

We binge watched the whole thing yesterday. Unusual to find something that a 18 , 26 and 56 yr old were all riveted by.

Great write ups in Guardian, Times and Telgraph. Also a review on radio 4 s Today program this morning with the brilliant 'intimacy coach' who did such an amazing job making the sex scenes moving and not gratuitous.

The leads both deserve BAFTAs (or the Irish equivalents )

Californiabakes · 27/04/2020 23:08

Watched the first 2 episodes and am loving it so far. Totally took me back to falling in love for the first time at 17.

screamer1 · 28/04/2020 00:05

God I can't imagine watching all that shagging with my parents!

EdwinaMay · 28/04/2020 07:00

It really brought back those intense feelings of teen years. The desperate obsession towards whoever you've fallen for. thank god that's long behind me

Egghead68 · 28/04/2020 07:09

Thought the book was bland and derivative. Really couldn’t see what all the hype was about but perhaps I am not the target market.

The TV series seems in a different league. I enjoyed the first two episodes.

Neverending2020 · 28/04/2020 08:51

Liked the first three episodes. Episode 4 was a waste of time - dull, lifeless, boring. He seemed totally devoid of character.

EricaNernie · 28/04/2020 08:52

yes, i purposefully didnt watch it with dd 20 due to Blush sex scenes, although we have watched fleabag together.

JellyfishandShells · 28/04/2020 09:00

My 20 something DD raved about the book, but I tried and gave up. Am nearly at the end of binge watching it and am enjoying it - gets much more interesting once it is at Trinity.

MrMagoo100 · 28/04/2020 09:46

Simply awful TV.
Derivative, full of cliches and unbelievable.
Teenagers don't talk like the characters do.
It's too contrived.