Conversations With Friends (BBC Three) | iPlayer
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You can only hope that Trinity College Dublin has Sally Rooney on some kind of marketing retainer. Just like lockdown mega-hit Normal People, the new 12-part BBC Three adaptation of her debut novel, Conversations With Friends, is partly set at the university. Normal People writing-directing personnel are on board (Alice Birch, Lenny Abrahamson), and there are recurring Rooney themes: fractured bonds; ideological tussles ranging from patriarchy to polyamory; and, of course, brainy, ruinously precious millennials for whom even flirting is doomed to turn exhausting and weird. Sample chat-up line: “So are you a committed communist?”
