Conversations with Friends
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Sally Rooney published her first novel,Conversations With Friends, back in 2017.
We were all much younger then.
(Rooney was 26.)
Ive read it, but I promise no spoilers for those who have not.
To begin, we have some intriguing deviations from the source material.
The show has Bobbi arriving in England from New York at about that time.
Maybe Rooney feels the same way revisiting this material now!
Then we see them onstage, performing a piece that I think is supposed to be good?
She compliments the girls by calling their performance sweet but ruthless.
Bobbi does the introductions: Frances is the writer, and she, Bobbi, is the muse.
She also blurts out that she and Frances used to have sex but dont anymore.
She and Bobbi talk like Frances isnt even there.
We cannot yet tell if ANYONE has an iPhone.
Maybe we are to believe that no one on this show is a Good Person?
Melissa had mentioned that she swims in the sea every day, so the girls meet her there.
As Melissa and Bobbi disappear to shower (separately) (… for now?!
), Nick gets home.
You two are such grown-ups, she says, and Melissa laments, Iknow.
Nick is an actor currently inCat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Do you think these kids have chemistry?
Im not feeling it yet, but again: I hold out hope!
At this point, Bobbi admits that she has a crush on Melissa.
Just in case you missed that.
Then we see her go to the play alone.
Is Nick a convincing Brick?
(Hard to follow in those Paul Newman footsteps.)
He literally bought you a ticket!
Obviously, he replies later on to say she shouldve stayed for a drink, because duh!!
That night, Frances winces against a hot-water bottle because she is having period pain from hell.
Shes being a dick like 90 percent of the time.
Itll be full of compliments in complete sentences.
And they wont even have to make eye contact.
