Conversations With Friends - BBC 3 & Hulu.

Will RTE air it?

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.

Much riding in it?

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

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

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!

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

We should be happy these programs make it look like Ireland is full of smart beautiful people who have deep meaningful intelligent conservations, not very realistic, but better than they old Hollywood stereotypes about drunken fighting Irish it's like an ad for the tourist board. I don't think it'll be as popular as normal people which got rave reviews

Ep 3 was like watching paint dry. Utterly charmless. Any spark or chemistry that is supposed to exist between Frances and Nick isn't being conveyed very well. Will keep watching car crash style.

"...smart beautiful people who have deep meaningful intelligent conservations"? Wat? Are we watching the same show riclad? It's mainly vapid, self absorbed nonsense.

As expected more moany, meek, mousey muck from the abnormal people talking with other abnormal people. Won’t be wasting my life following this series either.

I watched snippets. I'll never get that time back unfortunately.

I read the novel last year for my sins. Tommy Tiernan is playing her father. In the novel, you see him slipping deeper into alcoholism with each passing visit. The depression is mostly due to alcoholism, and is presumably also fueled by loneliness since the marriage breakdown.

In the book, the Dublin apartment is located down around the Liberties. It isn't owned by the father, rather by his brother, Frances' uncle. She's allowed to live there alone during the summer holidays but has to share with a paying tenant during term time. That's the girl you see moving out in episode 1, with whom Frances makes some small talk.

BTW, her home town in the novel is Ballina, if I recall correctly. I think the town portrayed in the TV show is Ballinasloe. I mentioned earlier in this thread that I hated the novel. I've only watched the first two episodes so far and I'm not impressed. I'll probably watch it, if only out of morbid curiosity. I don't like the casting, particularly internationalizing the 'Bobbi' character. Having said that, the actress playing 'Melissa' is pretty faithful to the source material.

Thanks for great reply.

I thought I saw the ocean when she went home. Neither Ballinasloe or Ballina are seaside towns.