when I lived at my mum's I often had wanker mates turning up wanting to use it as a fuck-pad because my mum hardly ever was there and mostly at her boyfriend's pad. I wasn't judging your post, my response was more like a lol of recognition!
― calzino, Tuesday, 2 March 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS arrived at last on BBC3 and iPlayer.
I felt like there was a word for this kind of material - something about something you know is bad yet still watch despite yourself. The ill-starred phrase 'guilty pleasure' will have to do.
The simple thought occurred to me that from a culture historically famed for eloquence, Rooney has made characters most notable for ineloquence.
You can pull that apart one way or another - arguing that other cultures have their own traditions of eloquence; that Ireland also has some famous traditions of taciturnity; that some of its great literature has been deliberately costive or minimal; that this is an adaptation not the book, which may be quite different; and certainly add that it's the characters, not necessarily Rooney herself, who are so feeble at talking. And half the main characters aren't Irish. With all that said I think it's true enough.
― the pinefox, Monday, 16 May 2022 14:12 (one year ago) link
I really loved Normal People, one ep down on this and it feels dead and dull
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Monday, 16 May 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
The actor boyf seems an APPALLING actor
Does he? I don't see that. He seems no worse to me than anyone else in this, or indeed in NORMAL PEOPLE. But not much to go on yet.
― the pinefox, Monday, 16 May 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
when is BBC3 bringing back Snog Marry Avoid, Freaky Eaters, and Sun Sex & Suspicious Parents?
― boxedjoy, Monday, 16 May 2022 21:48 (one year ago) link
I'll admit I am mystified by what a TV adaptation of Normal People could possibly bring to the table; literary fiction based around the inner lives of its characters seems a very bad fit for adaptation unless you go experimental with it.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 10:00 (one year ago) link
I thought Normal People worked really well, but I hadn't read the novel.
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 10:10 (one year ago) link