“It’s never just friends.”
The trailer for the upcoming BBC adaption of Sally Rooney’s novel Conversations With Friends dropped yesterday and it looks amazing.
The show follows the life of two college students in Dublin, Frances (Alison Oliver) and Bobbi (Sasha Lane), as they strike up an unlikely friendship with an older couple – the intriguing photographer Melissa (Jemima Kirke) and a dreamy actor named Nick (Joe Alwyn).
The 12-part drama is also being made by the same producers of the hit series Normal People, which was also based on a book by Rooney, and is likely to be just as popular.
Here are some things we learned from watching the trailer.
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It’s gonna be steamy
By the looks of things, there’s gonna be a lot of sex. But sure look, what more did we expect from a story centred around affairs? Will people still be phoning up Joe Duffy’s Liveline and giving out about the amount of “fornication”? Probably.
It looks even better than Normal People
Okay, so they’re two very different stories that can’t really be compared but Conversations With Friends just seems a bit spicier. The whole tone of this moody trailer screams drama and deception – we’re hooked.
Jemima Kirke is perfect
Jemima Kirke is just effortlessly cool – we know this from her iconic role as Jessa Johansson in HBO’s Girls. And as for the portrayal of Melissa, this is impeccable casting.
The cast have great chemistry
It’s not just Kirke, the other leading characters are cast perfectly too. And from the brief clips we’ve been teased, it looks like Oliver and Alwyn have really good chemistry.
In the trailer, we get a glimpse into the relationship between the two characters as Nick tells Frances: “What we’re doing is insanely risky.”
Risky or not, it ain’t gonna stop them doing what they’re doing – judging from the rest of the trailer.
This show could lead to a wider dialogue around open relationships
In the trailer, we hear Frances ask Bobbi whether or not it would depress her if the person she was with loved someone else, to which she responds: “Not if they loved me too.”
More and more people are embracing polyamorous relationships and the show, which centres the idea of non-traditional relationships, might just get people talking.
Alywn, who has been dating Taylor Swift for five years, recently said that even though his on-screen counterpart may approve, he would find an open relationship “exhausting”.
Conversations With Friends will premiere some time in Spring 2022 but no official air date has yet been announced.
