Conversations with Friends

Loved the messiness of this show. It’s so hard to express ourself fully to each other, even our most intimate friends and partners. This show captures the aloneness of being human, the struggles of living. But we also see how opening up and talking honestly can make life so much better, maybe even making new things possible. Sally Rooney’s books have been adapted so beautifully!

Given that this is adapted from the first novell Sally Rooney wrote, but made after 'Normal People', it's bound to be compared to it and seen in a worse light. The show is not for everyone, it's slow and depicts depression and emotional unavailability and one has to be in the right mood for it.
Though, it does feel real, it doesn't embellish or romanticise youth or mental illness, and honestly at times I was angry at the main character. Then only to realise that she is a lot like what I was at that age and that I had no real idea what I was doing or how to communicate properly and how not live in my head all the time.

I love the acting, maybe exactly because it's so subtle and "like real life". Joe Alwyn and Jemima Kirke's acting is especially great, seeing them on screen really enriched the view I had of them after only reading the book.

CWF has as one of its plots the ideas and turns of love but it does not make it its central theme, it advances on the difficulties to express emotions and the consequences of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

What a beautifully written, wonderfully performed series. Despite the times I called out, “Don’t do that!” I know this deals delicately with complex decisions that are, unfortunately, much more common than I would wish on this and future generations. It’s the price that is paid for disassembling all absolutes. I give this series an 8 (heart wrenching) out of 10. [Drama]