Sorry, but your weekend binge-watching plans are dead. Forewarned is forearmed: Conversations with Friends is a flop. Light a candle, grow out your fringe, bulk-buy some novels about intelligent women who are sad. The dream is over.
“Slow, solipsistic, and self-satisfied,” was how Nick Hilton, The Independent’s chief TV critic, described the show in his two-star review. “It is television designed to be watched out of the corner of your eye while scrolling through Instagram, peering in at strangers on two screens simultaneously.”
