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Conversations with Friends director promises drama will get sexier

Normal People sparked major controversy in 2020

Dublin Live · May 19, 2022

Conversations with Friends viewers all delighted to see Tommy Tiernan pop up on screen

People at home felt the star stole the show tonight

Dublin Live · May 18, 2022

‘Conversations With Friends’ sizzles with hot sex but ultimately it’s about friends

Love is sticky and confusing and painful. And that’s when it works.

Tribune News Service · May 17, 2022

Conversations With Friends review – TV so slow it must be trolling us

Sally Rooney’s second TV adaptation is an aggressively uneventful affair stuffed with meaningful looks and strained silences. Why doesn’t anyone speak? Why can’t anything happen?

The Guardian - UK · May 15, 2022

Conversations with Friends review: A conspicuously de-Irished adaptation of Sally Rooney’s best book

Book based on the Irish author’s debut novel is slow, solipsistic and self-satisfied – but it has a sort of ambient appeal

The Independent UK · May 15, 2022

TV tonight: Sally Rooney’s much-hyped Conversations With Friends is here

Joe Alwyn and Jemima Kirke star in the long-awaited BBC adaptation of the celebrated novelist’s debut. Plus: Tom Cruise and Helen Mirren celebrate the Queen’s jubilee. Here’s everything to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · May 15, 2022

What is BBC Three's Conversations with Friends about? Plotline of series adapted from Sally Rooney book

The new BBC drama is adapted from Sally Rooney's novel of the same name

Dublin Live · May 14, 2022

Conversation stopper: Why the BBC’s new Sally Rooney adaptation is an epic fail

The writer’s debut, ‘Conversations with Friends’, is her fans’ favourite, but we’re locked out of what makes the novel relatable and Joe Alwyn is miscast, says Jessie Thompson

The Independent UK · May 14, 2022

Karla Peterson: Hulu's adaptation of Sally Rooney's 'Conversations with Friends' leaves many things unsaid

In Hulu's new adaption of Sally Rooney's 2017 novel "Conversations with Friends," one look on actress Alison Oliver's face is worth many flashing paragraphs of Rooney's kaleidoscopic prose.

Tribune News Service · May 13, 2022

‘Conversations with Friends’ review: Carnal desires and the complications that arise afterward

There’s a conversation that bubbles up every so often about the absence of sex scenes in contemporary film: Why is everything so chaste on screen? It’s true that Hollywood is making fewer movies about adult relationships at the moment, but it’s not hard to find serious-minded TV that is filling…

Chicago Tribune · May 13, 2022