A few weeks ago I read Sally Rooney's Normal People. While I wasn't blown away by the novel, I also had a difficult time putting it down. Basically, I just really wanted the protagonists to make it through, be together and be happy. I was totally rooting for them. If Rooney decided to write a sequel which follows the characters a la Richard Ford and the Frank Bascombe novels or Richard Linklater and the Before trilogy of films, I would 100% watch it. I'm still rooting for them.
Then a couple of days ago maybe I was listening to a Smiths song or something and the YouTube algorithm served me up this video, which I watched, transfixed, not realizing it was from the BBC/Hulu adaptation of the Rooney. Takes me back to my college years, though we weren't this precious, I hope. But I mean, young love, who doesn't want to wallow in it, now and again? The one thing the TV show gets wrong is just how pretty the actress, Daisy Edgar-Jones, is. In the novel the character Marianne is not supposed to be that attractive, in my reading. Anyhoo. Good stuff. At least in a small dose.
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