Normal People [BBC - RTE] - [**SPOILERS**]

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7 Bafta TV award nominations

pj9999

Am I the only one who found Normal People only… alright? Dragged out convos like this: I’m taking yer one to the debs. Ok grand. Is that ok. Ya tis. Ok so.
Or
Have you got a condom. I do. Good. Will I put it on. Ok go on so good man. Thanks. Will I ride you now. Ok go on so I will take off my clothes. ok.

And herself’s bossy brother didn’t even get the comeuppance I was looking forward to at the end.

HeidiHeidi

It got us through the first lockdown.

For that alone it deserves an award.

ILoveYourVibes

should this not be in tv?

odyssey06

It wasnt perfect but at times it was wonderful tv.

The episode in the Italian villa was excellent.

Really brought me and a lot of watchers back to their undergrad days... whether that was 1990s Dublin or 1960s Cambridge.

Dr. Bre

Normal Sheeple

milehip

odyssey06 wrote: »

It wasnt perfect but at times it was wonderful tv.

The episode in the Italian villa was excellent.

Really brought me and a lot of watchers back to their undergrad days... whether that was 1990s Dublin or 1960s Cambridge.

That's what boils my piss! Normal People from the West of Ireland don't have access to Italian Villas or go to Trinners.

Buddy Bubs

Very poor. Should be called poor people. And then we could have another thread giving out about poor people.

odyssey06

milehip wrote: »

That's what boils my piss! Normal People from the West of Ireland don't have access to Italian Villas or go to Trinners.

Ok maybe not their own Italian villa but lots of Normal People over the years from the west of ireland have gone to Trinity or on hols in an Italian or French villa. Its one way of being Normal.

Wiggywiggle

I enjoyed it

Mullinabreena

milehip wrote: »

That's what boils my piss! Normal People from the West of Ireland don't have access to Italian Villas or go to Trinners.

Tubbercurry is like the D4 of County Sligo :pac:

Mad_maxx

milehip wrote: »

That's what boils my piss! Normal People from the West of Ireland don't have access to Italian Villas or go to Trinners.

West of Ireland solicitors dont own those kind of big properties in Italy , that was very unrealistic , her family were obviously well off but that made them look like the Smurfits

Bubonic

I hated it, gave up three episodes from the end. What drove me crazy was the hype, its the princess Diana funeral of Ireland.

Purple is a Fruit

Mad_maxx wrote: »

West of Ireland solicitors dont own those kind of big properties in Italy , that was very unrealistic , her family were obviously well off but that made them look like the Smurfits

Lots of it is unrealistic. And boring as f*ck.

ILoveYourVibes

Purple is a Fruit wrote: »

And boring as f*ck.

Some people like boring stuff. I mean ...to them its not boring. To me it was a borefest also. :P

Wiggywiggle

Bubonic wrote: »

I hated it, gave up three episodes from the end. What drove me crazy was the hype, its the princess Diana funeral of Ireland.

Lot of hype alrite, good to see a Irish production do well

ILoveYourVibes

Wiggywiggle wrote: »

Lot of hype alrite, good to see a Irish production do well

It was ..and internationally!

KungPao

Don't know. Never saw it. It looked like a load of ****e though, if that helps?

ILoveYourVibes

KungPao wrote: »

Don't know. Never saw it. It looked like a load of ****e though, if that helps?

It was well acted ..well shot ..and well produced ..

But ...boring.

See trouble is even good writing can be boring.

Quantum Erasure

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Normal Sheeple

Formal peep hole

I see sheep

Hated by right wing idiots.
I'm suprised it's taken this long for an AH thread criticising it

milehip

milehip wrote: »

That's what boils my piss! Normal People from the West of Ireland don't have access to Italian Villas or go to Trinners.

Sure, nobody from the west of Ireland has ever gone to Trinity.

JackTC

It was a fad.

It's not a show that will be remembered. Although yer man connell is doing well

iffandonlyif

My issue is that it’s celebrated for its groundbreaking portrayal of the nuances in ordinary relationships, but the reality is that it (particularly the adaption) is the story of one young man’s abnormal emotional dysfunction and the dreadful effect it has on his girlfriend. Paul Mescal plays Connell as someone recovering from a traumatic brain injury.

ILoveYourVibes

I see sheep wrote: »

Hated by right wing idiots.
I'm suprised it's taken this long for an AH thread criticising it

??

I'm left wing.

And erm i am too smart to be intelligent

Mad_maxx

Mad_maxx wrote: »

West of Ireland solicitors dont own those kind of big properties in Italy , that was very unrealistic , her family were obviously well off but that made them look like the Smurfits

Are rural properties in Italy all that expensive? Probably not. And you know, there’s wealth in the country, as in the city. You generally find that solicitors might have been born into wealth or inherited money.

Have a look at Ireland’s richest TDs.

KaneToad

Watched about 30 mins of it. Wasn't for me. I appear to be in the minority...

ILoveYourVibes

fvp4 wrote: »

Are rural properties in Italy all that expensive? Probably not. And you know, there’s wealth in the country, as in the city. You generally find that solicitors might have been born into wealth or inherited money.

Have a look at Ireland’s richest TDs.

Solicitors don't have a TD salary. Most solicitors don't inherit wealth. I know many of them. They are not wealthy people. And they don't have cleaners.

Apart from that the characters were ....not well developed.

Connell ....in real life would have been considered an oddball.

I see sheep

Mad_maxx wrote: »

West of Ireland solicitors dont own those kind of big properties in Italy

LOL

Solictors in the west of Ireland are very "comfortable" (i.e. well capable of fleecing their 'clients').
Legal fees are the same all over Ireland.
Their cost of living is also very low compared to the pale.

I liked it. What was unrealistic was his loneliness in college. Connell would have just played sports and picked up friends that way.

I see him as the wish fulfilment of the writer - the jock with a heart. The vulnerable jock.

Nevertheless the acting, camera work were top notch.