"Normal People" Episode #1.7 (TV Episode 2020) Poster

(TV Mini Series)

(2020)

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7/10
Deep Breaths...
W011y4m54 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
It's fairly accurate to say I've never wanted to punch a TV harder in my life...

These 2 characters have such a beautiful relationship with stunning on-screen chemistry & yet their actions continually sabotage their longevity with their reluctance to open up emotionally by just talking. Hence, their breakups are always a direct result of a breakdown in communication.

Consequently, this becomes their 2nd break up within 7 episodes & honestly by this point, it's genuinely becoming annoying & frustrating to watch, seeing the continual pattern over & over again already; they ruin things needlessly by refusing to communicate; time passes as they struggle to come to terms with the other's absence, they finally reconnect, communicate their original intentions, realise their mistakes, fix things & get back together - then repeat those errors from the beginning - which I get is a fairly realistic & accurate representation of genuine complex human relationships... HOWEVER - here, it begins to border on frustratingly formulaic repetitiveness, increasing in noticeability until the storytelling style unfortunately verges on predictability.

To be clear, these are 2 characters who are literally perfect for each other - consistently driven apart by now very irritatingly contrived writing.
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7/10
Talking too late
xmasdaybaby196616 May 2020
Time passes quickly through this episode and the pace of their lives is well-depicted but their feelings for one another still bubble under the surface. The twists and turns continue showing how privilege and talent can affect the way our lives move.
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last summer
Kirpianuscus24 February 2023
An episode about ignored opportunity - as result of huge misunderstanding - , about new relations - surogates, at the first sight, for the only one who matters - , the scolaships and their results and a fascinating, profound bitter dialogue about last summer.

The basic virtue - the reflection of time .

The essential good point - the realism of an relation in which friendship becomes, episode by episode, more significant in skin of sex.

In short, all the applauses deservet for the preview episodes and the same smart drive of story. And, sure, the acting, the vulnerability of too neurotic Jaimie becoming, in this episode reflected in the fair light.
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