NORMAL PEOPLE

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Normal People is a miniseries co-produced by BBC and Hulu. It’s an adaptation of Sally Rooney’s bestseller novel, which is an intense, delicate, moving and magnetic love story. It was included in 2019 by The Guardian at number 25 on their list of the 100 best novels of the 21st century. 


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Normal People tells a story of Connell (Paul Mescal), a player of the high school football team and Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones), an arrogant and unpopular girl. The twelve episodes follows protagonists from high school, where Marianne is constantly teased by a group of popular kids. Among them is Connell, whose mother cleans Marianne's house. First secret connection that occurs between them, ends broken by the lack of courage of the teenager, who is too afraid of this love. Then, they meet again at Trinity College in Dublin, where the dynamics are about to change. While they are both brilliant students, Marianne finds herself like a fish in water, while Connell feels lost.

It’s a story about their love and friendship, made up of moments of connection and heartbreaking misunderstandings; we see their attraction for each other, adventures, romances, family conflicts and disagreements, marked from the beginning by a difference in class. Their love is built, destroyed and rebuilt, over and over again, because Marianne and Connell seem destined to meet again, but also to hurt each other. 

All their interactions are full of feelings and the intimacy between them is so evident and deep, that they feel like themselves only when they are together. That powerful connection leads them to believe that words are unnecessary. And, obviously, it's not true. In those moments of disagreement Normal People hurts the most, because of the inability to communicate.

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The script is intimate, delicate and takes us through a world of doubts, confessions, sincerity, love and sex. I have to highlight one of the greatest advantages of the series, which is chemistry between the two protagonists, Edgar-Jones and Mescal.

The love story itself can be heartbreaking, but it is still classic in structure - the first meeting, the disturbing element, the breakup, the reunion, etc. - and it would be predictable if it weren't based on a psychological analysis of this relationship, which becomes more complex than it seems at the beginning. A moving story directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie McDonald captures every emotion and thought with an overwhelming beauty, sensitivity and honesty. 

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