![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But it too often tilts toward the same sense of reserve that its heroine does, resulting in a series that’s elegant and sensitive, but perhaps too cool for its own good.Ĭast: Alison Oliver, Sasha Lane, Joe Alwyn, Jemima KirkeĮxecutive producers: Ed Guiney, Emma Norton, Andrew Lowe, Lenny Abrahamson, Tommy Bulfin, Rose GarnettĮngineered by the same team that delivered Hulu’s 2020 hit Normal People, including director Lenny Abrahamson, screenwriter Alice Birch and source material author Sally Rooney, Conversations With Friends follows another bookish, withdrawn young woman through a life-changing romance. Conversations With Friends charts Frances’ halting journey toward bridging the disconnect between theory and practice, head and heart, with patience and a perceptive eye for detail. “It’s not real crying,” she insists while wiping away her tears.īut as the weeping suggests, she has great reservoirs of feeling buried away, unacknowledged and unprocessed, and they tend to spring leaks in inconvenient, unpredictable, sometimes destructive ways. Even when she cries during sex, she shrugs it off as a meaningless physical reaction. We know this because we can see how she guards her expressions, holds her tongue, deflects well-meaning questions with stoic indifference - but also because she keeps telling people that she isn’t, and being told by them that she isn’t. Frances (Alison Oliver), the protagonist of Conversations With Friends, is not the emotional type. ![]()
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