Normal People, is it realistic?

mariaalice wrote: »

This is not about normal people as such more about the themes of it.

I have watched bits of it a bit moody for me. I am ancient so maybe I do not get it, so what I am wondering is, is it a realistic portrait of a teenage/ twenties relationship in Irish society?

Honestly its the most boring thing i have seen on Irish telly in a while.

cj maxx wrote: »

What?

Normal/Boring people. My god it was a yawn fest.

You might want to get a better thread title and capitalize “Normal People” and state it’s a tv show that you’re talking about. It’s a very confusing opening post tbh if you’ve never heard of it.

Mary: "It was like porn Joe"

Joe: "Sure what would yeh see in a porno Mary?"

Deleted User wrote: »

Not a N plate either, so he must be a bit slow? At least 19 and in school!

He's from Sligo, different rules hai!

Every character in it is a lazy stereotype, just a slightly different lazy stereotype to other shows, and some of the storytelling is just insulting, but it nails a few things, and shure there's the debs like, remember the debs...... But overall style over substance.

It is in NO way representative of my teen years.

Popular Guys didn't go for 'unpopular' but intelligent girls. They went for popular girls.

If any guy DID get off with a girl no matter WHO the **** that girl was he was telling everyone he got off with someone.

There was way way less money.

There was way way more drugs.

There was way more stealing things.

There was also way more craic and being daft in my teen years.

lainey_d_123 wrote: »

Weirdly, it's not about you.

No but i would say my teens are fairly universal.

We need to get this fornicating filth off our televisions

TBH Irish teens are going through a lot right now. I think they deserve a bit of fornicating filth marketed toward them.

Sardonicat wrote: »

....and into our bedrooms!

It won't come ..i've tried luring it and everything! :mad:

unhappys10 wrote: »

What are you raving about?
3 or 4 people in my year had cars at 17, one in particular paying something like 600 as a named driver, they were farmers though.
Not everyone pays stupid money to start off.

Yes they do ...

Dude ...young guys when i was at school were quoted thousands for insurance ...this article says 18k.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/teenager-quoted-18-693-90-to-insure-a-14-year-old-car-1.3731834?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fnews%2Fireland%2Firish-news%2Fteenager-quoted-18-693-90-to-insure-a-14-year-old-car-1.3731834

To be a named drive at that age depending on the country etc and the car ..easily 4k.

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Yes they do ...

Dude ...young guys when i was at school were quoted thousands for insurance ...this article says 18k.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/teenager-quoted-18-693-90-to-insure-a-14-year-old-car-1.3731834?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fnews%2Fireland%2Firish-news%2Fteenager-quoted-18-693-90-to-insure-a-14-year-old-car-1.3731834

To be a named drive at that age depending on the country etc and the car ..easily 4k.

Mine was 2k. Car was 1500.
Not a bother when working over summer and living at home.

EDIT: and my parents paid for part of it :rolleyes:
Long time ago now..

Yeah, I thought it was fairly realistic, even though things have changed a lot since I was their age. I winced at some of the scenes where Marianne was being bullied and Connell kept his mouth shut. It reminded me of a girl in my class who we all picked on (I am ashamed to say I was one of them) for no other reason than that she didn't quite fit in. As an adult, I wish I'd stood up for her instead of moronically joining in with the chorus of classmates who mocked her. I honestly didn't see how hurtful we were at the time but quite frankly, we were ****s. By and large, teenagers don't want to stand out from the crowd and they fear the consequences of being the one who doesn't belong in the gang. I thought Normal People really nailed that. Connell not inviting Marianne to the Debs and failing to understand why that was wrong is typical teenage behaviour. It's to his credit that he came to realise why he had got it so wrong.

The sex was realistic too. How many of us had sex in childhood bedrooms, slept in single beds and got jiggy when parents weren't around? And I can relate to the fear and excitement of having sex for the first time. I just wish it had been with someone was nice as Connell but that's neither here nor there

Connell moving to Trinity also brought back memories of what it was like to go to college. It isn't today or yesterday since I went to college but those feelings of loneliness, disconnection, not belonging, wondering what the hell you're doing here etc. are universal. I didn't go to TCD but I can confidently say I met all those types of people Marianne and Connell did.

The inarticulateness of the characters was really realistic too. I think we've got so used to watching articulate Americans with carefully crafted lines of dialogue, we forget that humans don't talk like that. We aren't always articulate or good at constructing proper sentences in our heads. We don't say what's on our minds, even though we should. If Connell had been better at saying what was on his mind, it would've made life a lot less complicated for him.

Tork wrote: »

Yeah, I thought it was fairly realistic, even though things have changed a lot since I was their age. I winced at some of the scenes where Marianne was being bullied and Connell kept his mouth shut. It reminded me of a girl in my class who we all picked on (I am ashamed to say I was one of them) for no other reason than that she didn't quite fit in. As an adult, I wish I'd stood up for her instead of moronically joining in with the chorus of classmates who mocked her. I honestly didn't see how hurtful we were at the time but quite frankly, we were ****s. By and large, teenagers don't want to stand out from the crowd and they fear the consequences of being the one who doesn't belong in the gang. I thought Normal People really nailed that. Connell not inviting Marianne to the Debs and failing to understand why that was wrong is typical teenage behaviour. It's to his credit that he came to realise why he had got it so wrong.

The sex was realistic too. How many of us had sex in childhood bedrooms, slept in single beds and got jiggy when parents weren't around? And I can relate to the fear and excitement of having sex for the first time. I just wish it had been with someone was nice as Connell but that's neither here nor there

Connell moving to Trinity also brought back memories of what it was like to go to college. It isn't today or yesterday since I went to college but those feelings of loneliness, disconnection, not belonging, wondering what the hell you're doing here etc. are universal. I didn't go to TCD but I can confidently say I met all those types of people Marianne and Connell did.

The inarticulateness of the characters was really realistic too. I think we've got so used to watching articulate Americans with carefully crafted lines of dialogue, we forget that humans don't talk like that. We aren't always articulate or good at constructing proper sentences in our heads. We don't say what's on our minds, even though we should. If Connell had been better at saying what was on his mind, it would've made life a lot less complicated for him.

True ..teens are fascist sheep.