Hulu's ConversationswithFriends can't recapture the magic of Normal People.
It’s very obvious what the makers of Conversations with Friends are hoping will happen with it. The new drama is Hulu’s second limited series adaptation of a Sally Rooney novel and is coming just a little over two years after Normal People, which was based on Rooney’s beloved 2018 book of the same name, premiered and became an instant hit for the streaming service.
Illicit affairs Based on Sally Rooney’s debut 2017 novel, Conversations with Friends follows Frances , a student at a Dublin college who spends some of her free time performing her spoken word poetry with her best friend, Bobbi , who also happens to be her ex-girlfriend. One night, after performing together in a local bar, Frances and Bobbi find themselves engaged in a conversation with Melissa , a famous author.
A narrow point of view As Frances, Oliver makes a compelling and quietly magnetic screen figure. She navigates and communicates all of Frances’ many conflicting emotions well throughout Conversations with Friends’ 12 episodes, and makes her character’s occasional emotional spirals feel devastatingly real. That said, Frances is too interior and self-obsessed to be the show’s constant center of attention.
For their parts, both Sasha Lane and Jemima Kirke turn in strong work as Bobbi and Melissa, two characters who are deeply underserved by the series. That’s true for many of the show’s supporting figures though, as its unrelenting focus on Frances’ self-obsessed perspective makes nearly everyone else in Conversations with Friends feel unwritten.
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