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Evening Standard
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Phoebe Luckhurst

Conversations With Friends TV show review: A watered down version of Sally Rooney’s exhilarating debut

In a house with slate grey walls, splashy art and artisanal chopping boards, two 21-year old women are cos-playing in an adult world, listening to people in their — gasp — 30s talk about wedding days and squandered dreams. Bobbi (Sasha Lane) draws a crowd by playing impish iconoclast, laughing at the married, conventional people, and kissing the (married) hostess Melissa (Jemima Kirke). Meanwhile, Bobbi’s ex-girlfriend and best friend Frances (Alison Oliver) drifts around the house like a maudlin ghost.

Upstairs, she looks for the only other person under this roof as determined as her not to have any fun: Melissa’s husband, Nick (Joe Alwyn), who has got high to deal with the existential anguish of being a good looking, well-off and reasonably successful actor. Inevitably, an affair commences.

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