I've always lived like this; keeping a comfortable distance. And up until now I had sworn to myself that I'm content with loneliness, because none of it was ever worth the risk

Well, I finally got around to watching Normal People. It was all the rage last year, I think. At least I distinctly remember everyone raving about it. I figured it would be to my liking, because it seemed like my cup of tea. Also, the characters are Irish, which almost automatically makes everything better (in my opinion). Admittedly I hated the first episode, and I was about to just quit the series. However I persevered. My problem was that the plot seemed quite simple and a bit boring, but they still chose to do a cinematography which was quite dramatic, when I personally didn't think they needed to. I think it's the right thing to choose when a scene is intense and there's actual drama. However, when you keep using dramatic cinematography when it's not actually dramatic, it kind of negates the actual dramatic scenes. I also think think that the music choice could have been far better in lots of scenes, which would have elevated them. I think the series turns good around halfway through. At least that's when I started getting invested in the characters. I did really enjoy the time skips, and when they started almost writing letters to each other. It reminded me of Over the Rainbow/Love Rosie by Cecelia Ahern, where you have two people who seemingly belong together but the time is never right. I knew there would be sex scenes, but I was definitely surprised by the amount. I kind of thought it was too much, but then again, I think it suited them perfectly. Intimacy isn't just sex, but in order to enjoy the kind of intimacy that goes further than sex, you have to let your walls down and talk. But it's pretty obvious that Connell and Marianne isn't great at either. So I suppose it made perfectly sense. I have to say that I was surprised to see a penis multiple times-- there's a lot of tits and bums on the telly, but not that much genitals. There's a few scenes that I really enjoyed: 1. when they're skyping and Marianne is basically watching over Connell sleep through a computer screen. 2. When they're eating ice cream (or maybe gelato?) at an Italian piazza, and they're walking towards their bikes. The latter is one of my favourite cinematography in the series. 3. Lorraine giving Marianne an extra long hug when they arrived at the house to celebrate Christmas. I also think they did a good job at showing them both being slightly lost as they were transitioning from being kids attending school, and then going on to study at university and not knowing what they wanted in life. I thought the ending was lovely and done right, and I think the actors did a fabulous job. I only shed a few tears when Marianne gets a hug from Lorraine after Connell was acting like a twat, otherwise I wasn't able to get as into it as others might have. I think maybe parts of it is because I sometimes thought both Connell and Marianne had built their walls so high, I wasn't able to understand them properly. The series is mostly focused at the both of them as a couple and not-couple, but not at them individually. Normal People isn't my favourite thing I've seen, but it was nice and good acting, and I definitely wonder where Connell and Marianne is today.