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Good Bye to All That: Normal People

Published: May 12, 2020, 6 p.m.

Welcome to the second episode of Good Bye to All That \u2013 Pop Break\u2019s television podcast series that focuses on season (and sometimes series) finales of shows you absolutely need to be watching.

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Pop Break\u2019s Television Editor Alex Marcus is joined by former Television Editor and current senior writer/podcast Matt Taylor \u2013 who you\u2019ve heard on And The Winner Still is Like, and The Way Too Early Oscar Prediction Podcast.

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This episode they talk about Hulu\u2019s smash sensation, Normal People. Normal People is an Irish series based on the novel (of the same name) by author Sally Rooney \u2014 her second novel. The series examines the relationship of Marianne Sheriden (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell Waldron (Paul Mescal) from the final days of \u201csecondary school\u201d (high school) and their years as students at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. The series was adapted by Rooney, and Alice Birch (Lady Macbeth), and Mark O\u2019Rowe (Intermission, Perrier\u2019s Bounty). The series was directed by Lenny Abrahamson (Room) and Hettie Macdonald (Doctor Who \u2013 \u2018Blink\u2018).