This may seem like a minor change, but for a story that is so much about Marianne and Connell’s inability to express their honest feelings for one another, it is also relatively monumental. Is that really weird?”Ĭonnell responds to this sentiment, saying: “Yeah, that’s really weird, Marianne, but I think I understand it.” In the Normal People TV series, these thoughts become dialogue that Marianne expresses to Connell while they are in bed together, saying: “You know when I was watching you play football, you looked so beautiful, I kept thinking how much I wanted to watch you have sex, I mean, not even with me, with anybody, how good it would feel. She knew these were the kind of thoughts that made her different from other people in school, and weirder.” This is much harder to represent on screen, so some of the thoughts and feelings that take place inside of Marianne and Connell’s heads in the book are made external through dialogue or more explicit emotional reaction.įor example, in the book, Marianne goes to see Connell play football and thinks to herself about it: “It occurred to Marianne how much she wanted to see him having sex with someone it didn’t have to be her, it could be anybody. This is arguably necessary as much of the “action” of the book takes place inside of Marianne and Connell’s heads-we follow their thoughts and feelings as closely as their words and external actions. Guiney’s above statement is mostly true, but there are some tweaks/minor changes that the series makes to the source material. There are virtually no ideas or scenes in the series that aren’t in the novel, and we were always reacting to what Sally had written, which is a testament to its quality and depth.” Making Thoughts Into Lines of Dialogue Speaking about the similarities between the book and the series, Normal People producer Ed Guiney told BBC: “What is also interesting is that all of the book adaptations we have done at Element, Normal People remains closest to the novel. (She left to go work on her next novel, as novelists do.) The final six episodes were mostly written by playwright and Succession Season 2 story editor Alice Birch, with one written by playwright/screenwriter Mark O’Rowe.
Rooney also wrote the scripts for the first six episodes of the series.
As they grow from teenagers to young adulthood, they struggle to better understand themselves and one another. The 12-part character-driven drama follows the complex love story of Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Paul Mescal) from a small town in the west of Ireland to Dublin’s Trinity College. As an adaptation, Hulu’s Normal People is incredibly faithful to its source material: the bestselling 2018 novel of the same name by Irish novelist Sally Rooney.
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