Parents of older teenagers would do well to put “Normal People” on, and leave the room
IN 2018 AMAZON PRIME started showing “Tokyo Girl”, a subtitled drama about a young woman from provincial Japan who tries, and mostly fails, to find love and fulfilment in the metropolis. “Tokyo Girl” was not a hit, although it deserved to be. Patiently, over 11 half-hour episodes, it pulls off the difficult trick of making a sympathetic character out of a rather shallow woman . It seemed like the high-water mark of coming-of-age drama on modern television—until “Normal People” appeared.
Like “Tokyo Girl”, “Normal People” is about young people from small towns trying to build new lives in the big city. Ms Rooney’s two main characters arrive in Dublin with a lot of baggage. Connell and Marianne were secret lovers in high school. He was working-class and popular; she was a social outcast from a wealthy family. Both are deeply flawed. Connell is decent and kindly but weak, whereas Marianne is vulnerable and self-hating.
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