Normal People influenced Normal People

The BBC and Hulu series of Sally Rooney's novel, co-written by Rooney herself with Alice Birch and Mark O'Rowe, directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald. Twelve half-hour episodes against a novel structured as time-jumps between Marianne and Connell, which is an unusually good fit: each jump becomes an episode, and the novel's free indirect style, the thing that looks hardest to film, is replaced by long takes and silence rather than by voiceover.