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Agent Coulson · 08-02-2022 7:17pm #1

The new Sally Rooney series after the hit that was Normal People.

Due to arrive in May.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NPgz0Yoiqo&ab_channel=BBCThree

Liberty_Bear · 08-02-2022 7:25pm

Im apprehensive about it. I tried watching Normal People and could not get emotionally invested in the charachters. The deliberate arkwardness of them was intended to be cute but it bored me senseless.

JP Liz V1 · 08-02-2022 9:02pm

Will RTE air it?

gmisk · 08-02-2022 9:05pm

I liked the normal people TV show but then again I liked the book. The book version of this wasn't so good imo....

iffandonlyif · 08-02-2022 9:31pm

Hmm, I know it’s more of a sneak peak than a trailer, but it didn’t exactly wow me!

Useless Lump · 08-02-2022 10:34pm

It was just four people staring at each other across a room in public and private places.

Hamachi · 09-02-2022 7:44am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118602274#Comment_118602274

I wasn’t particularly blown away by Normal People as a novel. However, I thought the TV show elevated the source material.

I don’t believe that’s possible with this book. Conversations with friends has four extremely dislikable protagonists, who do nothing but have tedious, repetitive interactions with one another, most of which are self-absorbed and introspective. It would take a miracle worker to craft this dirge into something watchable.

I may end up eating my words, but I can’t see this being enjoyable.

Tom Mann Centuria · 09-02-2022 7:49am

The fact they've gone virtually all style over any kind of substance in the trailer isn't a great sign.

Hangdogroad · 09-02-2022 8:23am

Much riding in it?

Hamachi · 09-02-2022 9:22am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118603932#Comment_118603932

Loads, including girl-on-girl action. Enjoy!

Useless Lump · 10-02-2022 2:36pm

Alison Oliver seems very familiar.

This series is the only thing on her IMDB and I think she has only ever been on stage before this. So I could not have seen her in anything before but I feel like it is more that she reminds me of someone.

I have no idea though if it is someone famous or just someone I used to know.

AJB39 · 10-02-2022 5:45pm

RTÉ will air it as well.

Hamachi · 10-02-2022 6:32pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118610511#Comment_118610511

She looks a bit like Marcella Plunkett, who was in Bachelor’s Walk in the early ‘00s. That was my first impression.

Useless Lump · 10-02-2022 8:25pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118611906#Comment_118611906

That is very woman thanks.

I never saw Bachelor’s Walk (thought that the the 90s though) but Plunkett is in loads. I Google for videos and the first clip in her showreel shows she is one.

She was in Single-Handed too.

Useless Lump · 10-02-2022 9:27pm

Well good luck to the girl. The story isn’t my cup of tea but hopefully it is a career launcher for her.

Loafing Oaf · 11-02-2022 12:03am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118603932#Comment_118603932

Agent Coulson · 12-04-2022 6:10pm

Full trailer and it arrives May 15th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lvxQuOvf9s&ab_channel=Hulu

JP Liz V1 · 23-04-2022 1:57am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118611703#Comment_118611703

In May too, think on the player also

lukin · 02-05-2022 7:49pm

Just more gratuitous shagging by extremely physically attractive people by the looks of it. Can't understand why these shows get so much praise.

sam t smith · 02-05-2022 8:09pm

Y, more tripe like Normal People.

sam t smith · 02-05-2022 8:15pm

“I have this impulse, to be available to you, all the time.”

Do human people say stuff like this? 😂

silliussoddius · 02-05-2022 8:47pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119007051#Comment_119007051

Normal people do.

sam t smith · 02-05-2022 8:48pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119007192#Comment_119007192

Like the ‘normal people’ in her other book? 😏

lukin · 02-05-2022 8:54pm

There are no normal people in Sally Rooney's books (or the TV series's that follow them).

They are all beautiful and perfect having beautiful,perfect sex.

Why don't they have ugly people as the lead actors in them? Because nobody would watch them of course.

RoTelly · 04-05-2022 12:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119007237#Comment_119007237

Do all beautiful people say everything in hushed voices for dramatic effect?

Mary(whispers): I want... I want... you ... you [she sighs]

John (whispers back): Go on ... you ... you ... want me to ...

Mary (sighing): to wash ... the fupan dishes..

John (angerily): YOU FAT SMELLY COW!

Mary : YOU HAVE A FACE LIKE A PAIR OF TITS!

John: Well at least we have one pair between us!

Shelga · 15-05-2022 11:39pm

Did anyone watch the first couple of episodes on BBC3 tonight? I just finished the book recently, and enjoyed it, but so far this isn’t working for me the way the Normal People adaptation did. Very slow moving- I was surprised to see it’s 12 episodes, in my opinion, 6-8 would have sufficed. There’s been no real buildup to the Nick Frances kiss, and the actors don’t have the same chemistry that Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar Jones did.

Bobbi is annoying, but she’s annoying initially in the book too. Frances is how I pictured her, and the actress is doing a good job. Nick is pretty monosyllabic and dull so far. Jemima Kirke is perfect as Melissa.

But… it lacks something. It’s less than the sum of its parts. I’ll keep watching, as it’s pretty and stylish, but it’s not going to be a zeitgeisty moment like Normal People was, I think that’s pretty clear.

16-05-2022 12:10am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119068678#Comment_119068678

Not familiar with the source but the story and characters I had little interest in. It's very slow and while well shot as expected makes Dublin look like a suburb of London. We watched 6 episodes.

Was thinking about it more today, so probably a good sign.

16-05-2022 9:22pm

BBC three coming to Sky Ireland tomorrow!

olestoepoke · 16-05-2022 9:38pm

More filth lol, Joe's liveline will be hopping again.

lukin · 17-05-2022 9:49am

Fifty Shades of s###e

sam t smith · 17-05-2022 9:54am

Reviews generally negative. Another pass for me.

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