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- 2022
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- 2022
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Summary The relationship between 21-year-old Frances (Alison Oliver) and her best friend/ex-girlfriend Bobbi (Sasha Lane) is tested after they both grow closer to Melissa (Jemima Kirke), an older writer and her actor husband, Nick (Joe Alwyn) in this adaptation of Sally Rooney novel of the same name.
- 2022
- TV-MA
- HULU
- 2022
- TV-MA
- HULU
Conversations with Friends
Season 1 Premiere: May 15, 2022
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8.1
Summary The relationship between 21-year-old Frances (Alison Oliver) and her best friend/ex-girlfriend Bobbi (Sasha Lane) is tested after they both grow closer to Melissa (Jemima Kirke), an older writer and her actor husband, Nick (Joe Alwyn) in this adaptation of Sally Rooney novel of the same name.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 29 Critic Reviews
64
48% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
52% Mixed
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15 Reviews
0% Negative
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The drama does ask whether we’re being asked to squeeze ourselves into unrealistic roles. That provocation is balanced with the dreamy, golden-hued cinematography, particularly during the group’s idyllic holiday to Croatia, which makes this an utter joy to watch, as well as an audacious conversation-starter.
Only time will tell if Conversations will be as big as Normal People, but it makes another great argument for more hushed tenderness to crash into the zeitgeist as a way to balance the overt maximalism (Marvel, scammy biopics, even the dramatics of Bridgerton) in entertainment.
This is well-trodden territory and “Conversations with Friends” isn’t particularly insightful about the nature of affairs. And yet after each episode ended, I found myself drawn to the next. ... There’s something electric in this naturalistic drama about the toxic ties that bind us.
The 12 half-hour episodes shrink away from ever tapping into Rooney’s grisly side, turning a biting novel into a standard melodrama that’s handsomely shot and finely acted but frustratingly sterile.
A script that is both sparse and overdetermined, one that at times makes its characters voice what would otherwise remain an inner monologue in Rooney’s words. (“You’re thinking things and not saying them,” Frances is told at one point.) It’s no surprise the series feels most electric when it forgoes dialogue altogether.
The series attempts to explore all avenues of it–albeit mostly via angsty debriefs and loaded, silent looks. But wanting comes from the heart, and unfortunately, somewhere between the page and the screen, this story became bloodless.
Conversations with Friends, like its characters, doesn’t have much to say, but takes its sweet time saying it.
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Universal Acclaim
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8.1
71% Positive
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Production Company:
- Element Pictures
Initial Release Date: May 15, 2022
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Irish Film and Television Awards
• 7 Nominations
ReFrame
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
