Normal People

Kelly Severseike
6 min readMay 8, 2020

Why this brilliant series adaptation of Sally Rooney’s beloved book deserves all the praise it’s getting.

Daisy Edgar-Jones & Paul Mescal

*This piece contains spoilers for Sally Rooney’s Normal People and the Hulu Series.*

I didn’t expect to be blown away by the series adaptation of Sally Rooney’s beloved book Normal People. I had read the book as soon as it came out in the states last April. I’ll be honest, I had a hard time connecting with…

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Kelly Severseike

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” -Joan Didion