Conversations with Friends

Name: Conversations with Friends
Genre: Drama
Released: May 15, 2022
Rating: 64

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HULU | Release Date: May 15, 2022

Summary: The relationship between 21-year-old Frances (Alison Oliver) and her best friend/ex-girlfriend Bobbi (Sasha Lane) is tested after they both grow closer to Melissa (Jemima Kirke), an older writer and her actor husband, Nick (Joe Alwyn) in this adaptation of Sally Rooney novel of the same name.

Genre(s): Drama

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S1:E12. Episode #1.12
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S1:E11. Episode 11
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The Telegraph Marianka Swain

May 10, 2022

Season 1 Review: The drama does ask whether we’re being asked to squeeze ourselves into unrealistic roles. That provocation is balanced with the dreamy, golden-hued cinematography, particularly during the group’s idyllic holiday to Croatia, which makes this an utter joy to watch, as well as an audacious conversation-starter. Read full review

IndieWire Ben Travers

May 10, 2022

Season 1 Review: While the six hours can get bumpy in plotting (and frustrating when the story’s perceptiveness clashes with its lead’s innocence), “Conversations with Friends” paints a sophisticated psychological portrait of when youthful ambitions and adult realities come to a head. Read full review

Radio Times Flora Carr

May 10, 2022

Season 1 Review: Although the ex-lovers-turned-friends spend most of the series falling for other people, its their mutual love and will-they-won't-they relationship that provides the cornerstone of the series. Read full review

Angie Han

May 10, 2022

Season 1 Review: If Conversations With Friends excels at capturing the finer details of their interactions, however, it’s somewhat less convincing at conveying the warmth or heat coursing underneath them. In part, it’s a problem of chemistry. ... Oliver and Alwyn generate only mild friction together. ... Better together are Oliver and Lane, especially when Conversations With Friends is able to dive into the longstanding well of love between their characters. Read full review

Shirley Li

Jun 13, 2022

Season 1 Review: The 12 half-hour episodes shrink away from ever tapping into Rooney’s grisly side, turning a biting novel into a standard melodrama that’s handsomely shot and finely acted but frustratingly sterile. Read full review

Caroline Framke

May 13, 2022

Season 1 Review: “Conversations With Friends” follows the “Normal People” pattern so closely that it often feels more like a faded impression rather than its own series. In trying to replicate what made the “Normal People” adaptation work, with the same creative team to boot, this version of “Conversations With Friends” becomes strangely bland, as if leeched of all its flavor. Read full review

The Independent Nick Hilton

May 10, 2022

Season 1 Review: Conversations with Friends, like its characters, doesn’t have much to say, but takes its sweet time saying it. Read full review

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Sxphia123

May 16, 2022

Such a beautiful story line, the acting is fantastic and shows the in and outs of an affair. So much chemistry

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joelgreenberg

Jun 18, 2022

The series might have sustained itself better with 8 rather than a bloated 12 episodes. And not unlike Normal People, the back-and-forth of the relationships loses its power and becomes monotonous. Oliver, the principal 21-year old, does grow more beautiful as we spend so much time watchingThe series might have sustained itself better with 8 rather than a bloated 12 episodes. And not unlike Normal People, the back-and-forth of the relationships loses its power and becomes monotonous. Oliver, the principal 21-year old, does grow more beautiful as we spend so much time watching her, but either the actor or the writer haven't taken her beyond observer status, except when she shrinks away from one awkward social scene after another. The character does get a first short story published, manages to sustain a deep friendship that crashes too many times for us to care very much, and ends with the promise of a love fulfilled, although promises aren't always kept.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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  S1:E12. Episode #1.12
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  S1:E1. Episode 01
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