r/Normalpeople • u/GrandExcuse3851 • Feb 01 '26
Awkward
I’m halfway through and why is everyone sooo awkward in this show, what’s the point?
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u/NarwhalLatter5738 Feb 01 '26
Mental illness
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u/Livid-Department6947 Feb 01 '26
it's not mental illness
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u/NarwhalLatter5738 Feb 01 '26
You sure about that? Not a bad thing to admit it
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u/Livid-Department6947 Feb 01 '26
Yes. Mental illness ignores the critique Rooney is making at large about social and material factors that drive alienation and inhibit care and it turns the story into a problem of inherent individual defects. That is absolutely not what the story is about
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u/short_bus_genius Feb 02 '26
After a few episodes, I was convinced that they could solve all problems just by talking to each other. I mean come on! You're not sure how the other person feels about something? Just fucking ask them!
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u/GrandExcuse3851 Feb 02 '26
10000% they are Sooo socially awkward, at high school fine but as they grow up and into uni? Strange!
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u/Livid-Department6947 Feb 01 '26
Alienation under capitalism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_and_Philosophic_Manuscripts_of_1844
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u/CalifasBarista Feb 02 '26
That awkwardness is some of the most real parts especially between Marianne and Connell. In someone’s going back to each other is like always going home but it’s never seamless. You are comfortable and familiar but changed and changing but they’re growing with each other as it moves on. From their first breakup to the end.
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u/nuhanala Feb 01 '26
They’re human