One of the most talked about tv adaptations in 2020! The bbc's polished and intoxicating adaptation of sally rooney's global bestseller. Normal people is an exquisite and compulsive modern love story about how two people can profoundly impact each other’s lives. Starring paul mescal and daisy edgar jones.   normal people tracks the tender but complicated relationship of marianne and connell from the end of their school days in a small town in the west of ireland to their undergraduate years at trinity college.  in a school in a small town in the west of ireland, connell is a well liked, good looking and athletic student, while marianne is a proud, intimidating and unpopular loner who actively avoids her classmates and questions her teachers' authority. But when connell comes to pick up his mother from her cleaning job at marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers – one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they’re both studying in dublin and marianne has found her feet in a new social world but connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Honest, smart and intoxicating, this intimate drama sees the pair weave in and out of each other’s lives and explores just how complicated young love can be.