Normal People, the review of the TV series with Paul Mescal

**Normal People ** It is the series of the moment, indeed the rewatch of the moment, as they say in jargon. He had come out in 2020, from us on Starzplay, but from today he is finally accessible to everyone on Raiplay. It is the series that normal, in spite of the title, has nothing, because it is practically perfect. The screenplay is not normal, the direction is not normal, the interpretation of the two protagonists is not normal, Paul Mescal (yes, it is the series that launched it) and Daisy Edgar-Jones. At the time the Guardian He had called it “a triumph from every point of view”.

Normal People It is the adaptation of the famous novel of 2018 by Sally Rooney, whose label states “Voice of the Millennial”, the “Salinger of the Snapchat generation” (how much they quickly age the technological clichés), certainly one of the most relevant voices in recent years. Marianne and Connell are two Irish boys, intelligent and confused, who meet in high school in a provincial town and chasing each other emotionally for years, between universities, painful silences, not sent messages and unrealized statements. She is rich and without friends, considered strange, he is working class and very popular at school.

Sally Rooney, the brilliant friend in the time of millennials

Thousands of pages were written to understand the secret of Normal Peoplebut the recipe for success is always a mystery, Sally Rooney has a way of its own to tell the first love that is both analytical and deeply erotic. And the TV series, to which the writer has collaborated, succeeds in the miracle of making those atmospheres, that unique and unrepeatable feeling that is the first falling in love, with all the uncertainties, the torments, the sighs and the vertigo of eros. Because the miracle is also: in the incredibly realistic and delicate sex scenes, full of tension and emotion well illuminated by natural light (a lot of natural light). Question of chemistry between the two actors, of course, but also of a look at people and on the things that to define sharp, for once, is not a phrase made.