Conversations with Friends (Season 1)

Conversations with Friends (2022) is a BBC Three drama you can watch online on iFILM, adapted from Sally Rooney's debut novel by Lenny Abrahamson and Leanne Welham — the same directors who made Normal People.

Frances (Alison Oliver) and Bobbi (Sasha Lane) are Dublin students, ex-girlfriends, and best friends. At a literary party they meet Melissa (Jemima Kirke), a writer, and her actor husband Nick (Joe Alwyn). The four grow close. Frances and Nick grow closer.

Rooney's writing is about the distance between what people say and what they feel, and Abrahamson films the silences as carefully as the scenes. Alison Oliver makes her screen debut here and immediately feels indispensable. Stream Conversations with Friends (2022) online on iFILM.