O'Halloran, Joseph (5 May 2020). "Normal People takes BBC Three to its best week ever". Rapid TV News . Retrieved 5 May 2020. a b Galvin, Ciara (21 September 2019). "Rooney novel 'normal people' in Tubber filming". The Sligo Champion . Retrieved 3 November 2019. Ramachandran, Naman (31 March 2020). "Oscar Nominee Lenny Abrahamson's 'Normal People' Sets BBC, Hulu Dates". Variety . Retrieved 22 May 2020. The author of the original novels, George R. R. Martin was happy when HBO expressed interest in adapting them, saying, “I knew it couldn’t be done as a network television series. It’s too adult. The level of sex and violence would never have gone through.” The lesson: always bear in mind the target home of your TV script pilot. In addition to that, both characters struggle to articulate their feelings and misread each other's intentions.

Holmes, Linda (29 April 2020). " 'Normal People' Is A Love Story To Cherish". NPR.org . Retrieved 26 May 2020. In June 2020, Abrahamson directed Edgar-Jones and Mescal in a one-off spoof short episode as part of RTÉ Does Comic Relief, in which Marianne and Connell give confessions to a priest played by Andrew Scott. [20] [21] Reception [ edit ] Critical response [ edit ] Rear view of Marianne walking through school. She is determined. Uniformed teens are milling about the corridors as she passes by without a glance at them. Baxter-Wright, Dusty (31 March 2020). "Sally Rooney's Normal People is being adapted into a TV series". Cosmopolitan . Retrieved 31 March 2020. Paul Mescal as Connell Waldron, a well-liked, academically gifted student and athlete. His mother works as a cleaner for Marianne's family. He struggles with what he wants out of life and decides to follow Marianne's suggestion and apply to be an undergraduate at Trinity College to study English.Note this TV pilot’s use of handheld cameras, voiceover and occasional use of historical photos and movie footage to set it apart from the norm. Another Showtime production is this British-American Horror series, developed by John Logan. He wrote the TV pilot script on spec and it’s a great example of how to incorporate characters from the public domain into your work, such as Dorian Gray, Van Helsing and Count Dracula. The series also featured music from The Young Will Eat The Old, the debut album from Irish hip hop duo Tebi Rex. [14] Delve deeper into the Emmy- and Golden Globe–nominated Hulu series based on Sally Rooney’s bestselling novel with this must-have collection of the Normal People scripts, featuring behind-the-scenes photos and an introduction by director Lenny Abrahamson.

Producer Veena Sud describes this excellent remake of the Danish original as “slow-burn storytelling in a sense that every moment that we don’t have to prettify or gloss over or make something necessarily easy to digest, that we’re able to go to all sorts of places that are honest, and dark, and beautiful and tragic, in a way that is how a story should be told.”

Connell and Marianne's romance blossoms, but he is eager to keep their relationship a secret to protect his high social standing in school. Connell and Marianne have sex and they continue to grow closer. However, Connell continues to ignore her in school. Marianne acts as though it is fine, but it puts their delicate connection under strain. Connell and his mother are very close in contrast to the high tension between Marianne and her family, which continues to grow. When writing TV show scripts based on superheroes, remember the advice of this show’s creator, Bruno Heller. He notes: “Frankly, all those superhero stories I’ve seen, I always love them until they get into the costume.” After this point, “they’ve stopped becoming humans.” Best Cinematography in a Television Drama - Winners" (PDF). British Society of Cinematographers . Retrieved 4 February 2023. Rooney’s] two carefully observed and gentle comedies of manners . . . are tender portraits of Irish college students. . . . Remarkably precise—she captures meticulously the way a generation raised on social data thinks and talks .”— New York Review of Books

Normal People reportedly gave BBC Three its best ever week on iPlayer (26 April to 3 May), receiving over 16.2 million programme requests across the 12 episodes, about 5 million of which were from 16- to 34-year-olds, and bringing BBC Three requests up to 21.8 million, doubling the previous record of 10.8 million from the release of the first series of Killing Eve. Seventy per cent of BBC Three requests that week were for Normal People and a quarter had finished all 12 episodes. [32] [33] It became the most-streamed series of the year on the BBC, with 62.7 million views from April to November 2020. [34] Caroline Framke of Variety magazine wrote: "With its trifecta of elegant writing, directing, and acting, Hulu's Normal People is just as bleak and uncompromising as Rooney's novel—a feat, and one that takes several episodes to fully absorb. In fact, it took me until about halfway through to understand just how much it was affecting me. ... As Marianne and Connell's relationship grows deeper, Normal People becomes as immersive as the book that inspired it, making you both crave and dread knowing—or perhaps more accurately, experiencing—what happens next." [24] Prathyush Parasuraman of Film Companion, wrote, "Rarely have I seen the sort of cultural dialogue that I saw post the release of Normal People in April 2020, when it was released in the UK. Based on Sally Rooney's namesake book, the story follows Marianne and Connell through the later years of their high-school, their years at college, and the post-collegiate restlessness, failing to be what one wished for oneself only years ago. It's set in and around Ireland, with brief detours to sunny Italy and snowy Sweden." [30] Starring the criminally underrated actor Giovanni Ribisi, this is a great TV pilot script that expertly mixes genres. The show is listed on IMDb as a “crime drama” but its use of humor, zippy dialogue, action set pieces and so on, set it apart from darker crime shows, such as True Detective or The Wire. I just love how simple Sally Rooney’s writing is. I love the relationship between Connell and Marianne.I started with the series in December and I was obsessed. I decided to read the book then since I loved the series so much and really liked it. Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular. Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation, something life-changing begins. This seven-episode Western mini-series is a great example of how TV is attracting some of the very best feature writers. In this case, Scott Frank wrote the series exclusively for Netflix and it went on to win many awards including Outstanding Writing for a Long Form from the WGA West.