In Sally Rooney’s second Hulu adaptation, four flawed individuals grapple with marriage, monogamy and modern relationships.
“It feels really stupid to have to love someone unconditionally sometimes. Like, maybe there needs to be conditions,” ponders Frances, the 21-year-old protagonist of
, in episode 4 of Hulu’s adaptation of Sally Rooney’s debut novel. It’s a notion she’ll spend the entire 12-episode series grappling with in some way or another—as will a very vexed audience.follows Frances , an intelligent yet immature college student living in Dublin, as she navigates a nexus of complex relationships.
For starters, Bobbi’s character is made a Black American as opposed to a white Irish woman—an alteration that actually didn’t feel like another cheap attempt at diversity and inclusion™ and worked well. Unfortunately for Bobbi—who, of the foursome, is arguably the most adept at managing both her own feelings and those of everyone around her—she ends up doing the heft of the emotional labor. Even in the relationships that don’t involve her. Given she’s the narrator, Frances’ perceptions of Bobbi—whether accurate or not—take precedence while the audience is mostly left to infer what kind of person and friend Bobbi truly is.
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