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

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The Importance of Normal People

I think that's harder to do than it sounds. And every choice is loaded. I mean I think that you alluded to the dynamics of the sex scenes which are pretty steamy and I think they're fun. They definitely, in the early episodes, like they seem to be really enjoying themselves. It's more about these are just two people who are figuring it out. Like there's nothing there's no island from lost here. There's no, you know, Don Draper figures it all out at the end. The episode can be as much as Connell goes and picks up Chinese food with his friends, sees Marianne at school, they talk a little bit. Then they have sex

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