SummaryThe relationship between 21-year-old Frances (Alison Oliver) and her best friend/ex-girlfriend Bobbi (Sasha Lane) is tested after they both grow closer to Melissa (Jemima Kirke), an older writer and her actor husband, Nick (Joe Alwyn) in this adaptation of Sally Rooney novel of the same name.
Conversations with Friends
Season 1 Premiere:
May 15, 2022
Metascore
Generally Favorable
64
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Generally Favorable
8.0
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May 10, 2022
100
The drama does ask whether we’re being asked to squeeze ourselves into unrealistic roles. That provocation is balanced with the dreamy, golden-hued cinematography, particularly during the group’s idyllic holiday to Croatia, which makes this an utter joy to watch, as well as an audacious conversation-starter.
May 10, 2022
80
Only time will tell if Conversations will be as big as Normal People, but it makes another great argument for more hushed tenderness to crash into the zeitgeist as a way to balance the overt maximalism (Marvel, scammy biopics, even the dramatics of Bridgerton) in entertainment.
May 13, 2022
75
This is well-trodden territory and “Conversations with Friends” isn’t particularly insightful about the nature of affairs. And yet after each episode ended, I found myself drawn to the next. ... There’s something electric in this naturalistic drama about the toxic ties that bind us.
Jun 13, 2022
60
The 12 half-hour episodes shrink away from ever tapping into Rooney’s grisly side, turning a biting novel into a standard melodrama that’s handsomely shot and finely acted but frustratingly sterile.
May 11, 2022
58
A script that is both sparse and overdetermined, one that at times makes its characters voice what would otherwise remain an inner monologue in Rooney’s words. (“You’re thinking things and not saying them,” Frances is told at one point.) It’s no surprise the series feels most electric when it forgoes dialogue altogether.
May 10, 2022
50
The series attempts to explore all avenues of it–albeit mostly via angsty debriefs and loaded, silent looks. But wanting comes from the heart, and unfortunately, somewhere between the page and the screen, this story became bloodless.
May 10, 2022
40
Conversations with Friends, like its characters, doesn’t have much to say, but takes its sweet time saying it.
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Generally Favorable
8.0
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May 16, 2022
10
Such a beautiful story line, the acting is fantastic and shows the in and outs of an affair. So much chemistry
Jun 18, 2022
6
The series might have sustained itself better with 8 rather than a bloated 12 episodes. And not unlike Normal People, the back-and-forth of the relationships loses its power and becomes monotonous. Oliver, the principal 21-year old, does grow more beautiful as we spend so much time watching her, but either the actor or the writer haven't taken her beyond observer status, except when she shrinks away from one awkward social scene after another. The character does get a first short story published, manages to sustain a deep friendship that crashes too many times for us to care very much, and ends with the promise of a love fulfilled, although promises aren't always kept.
