Sally Rooney's bestselling novel gets a crushingly intimate adaptation with two excellent performances at its center. By Caroline Framke Chief TV Critic No matter the destination, there are inevitabilities built into “boy meets girl” stories.
They meet, they flirt, they kiss, they fight, they fall in love. But the best of them dig past the surface to find more specific truths; they find a vein and let the blood flow. “Normal People,” as originally written by Sally Rooney, is one of those stories.
The 2018 novel stepped inside the heads of Marianne and Connell, two Irish teenagers who try, and fail, and try, and fail, to resist the magnetic pull between them.
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