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Why ‘Normal People’ Is So Captivating, Featuring Director Lenny Abrahamson | The Watch

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The Importance of Normality in Television

I think maybe what makes it stand out is just that it's it's sort of truthful and naturalistic and really closely observed. And so much of what they do make you fall in love with them is the most pedestrian normal everyday stuff. They're walking around town or campus reading, working at a pretty regular job. It just feels so much like life. I guess partially under the sort of umbrella of it being from this this sort of hit novel. But also there is an elasticity to episodic television now, where I think that you're able to cram all this interesting stuff in to relatively short episodes.

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