Maybe it was the story? Maybe it was the cast? Maybe it was the fact that watching normal life is unusually thrilling when your current normality consists of nothing more than a commute from your bed to your desk and back again (with a break at 5pm to watch a shoddy government PowerPoint, of course). Like so many others, I joined the ‘Sally Rooney Fan Club’ back in 2020 after Normal People began competing with covid in the race to take over the world. Somewhere along the way Conversations with Friends stumbles off the trail Unfortunately, as we all know, it so rarely does. With the same writers, directors, and production team back to put the pages on the screen, I’ve been anxiously waiting to see if lightning could strike twice. After the smash hit of Normal People two years ago, Conversations with Friends is BBC Three’s new Sally Rooney adaptation.
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