(Warning: The post contains spoilers for the final episode of Hulu’s “Conversations With Friends.”)
The end of “Conversations With Friends” isn’t supposed to leave you satisfied. The story ends in true Sally Rooney fashion, with no clear resolution — and a ton of lingering feelings.
“I think the ending is so ambiguous, and I think you can’t help but wonder what that leads to,” Alison Oliver, one of the series’ stars, told TheWrap. “From the get-go, the story is so messy and complex and all of those things, that to finish with that actually feels really right.”
Over 12 episodes, audiences follow Oliver’s Frances, who is a 21-year-old college student, and her budding love affair with Nick Conway (Joe Alwyn). Their relationship is complicated by many factors, including Frances’ lingering feelings for her best friend and ex-girlfriend, Bobbi (Sasha Lane), and Nick’s wife Melissa (Jemima Kirke).
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The end of “Conversations With Friends” isn’t supposed to leave you satisfied. The story ends in true Sally Rooney fashion, with no clear resolution — and a ton of lingering feelings.
“I think the ending is so ambiguous, and I think you can’t help but wonder what that leads to,” Alison Oliver, one of the series’ stars, told TheWrap. “From the get-go, the story is so messy and complex and all of those things, that to finish with that actually feels really right.”
Over 12 episodes, audiences follow Oliver’s Frances, who is a 21-year-old college student, and her budding love affair with Nick Conway (Joe Alwyn). Their relationship is complicated by many factors, including Frances’ lingering feelings for her best friend and ex-girlfriend, Bobbi (Sasha Lane), and Nick’s wife Melissa (Jemima Kirke).
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- 5/23/2022
- by Katie Campione
- The Wrap
‘Conversations With Friends': Joe Alwyn and Alison Oliver on the Power Dynamics of Their Love Affair
For Hulu’s “Conversations with Friends,” Joe Alwyn plays Nick Conway, a 31-year-old married man who is trying to learn to trust his wife again after she cheats on him. But then he meets Frances (Alison Oliver), a 21-year-old college studentnd, and so begins his own affair.
The relationships in the streamer’s latest Sally Rooney book adaptation are anything but clear cut. They bring the characters joy and excitement, while also causing heartache and pain. There are a lot of dynamics at play, including the fact that there is a 10-year age gap (and a lot of life experience) separating the two at the center of it all.
However, Alwyn and Oliver agreed that the power dynamics in their on-screen romance aren’t so impacted by that age difference. Rather, there were a lot of other forces at play.
“I don’t think it’s as clear-cut as who...
The relationships in the streamer’s latest Sally Rooney book adaptation are anything but clear cut. They bring the characters joy and excitement, while also causing heartache and pain. There are a lot of dynamics at play, including the fact that there is a 10-year age gap (and a lot of life experience) separating the two at the center of it all.
However, Alwyn and Oliver agreed that the power dynamics in their on-screen romance aren’t so impacted by that age difference. Rather, there were a lot of other forces at play.
“I don’t think it’s as clear-cut as who...
- 5/16/2022
- by Katie Campione
- The Wrap
Sally Rooney’s first novel “Conversations with Friends” will be getting the “Normal People” treatment, and fans of the book are eager to see how it’s adapted on the screen. Both adaptations can be found on Hulu, with “Conversations with Friends” hailing from the same creative team that brought “Normal People” to life. The latest adaptation has a core of four central characters, who become intertwined romantically and platonically and slightly professionally.
Known for her biting writing, Rooney’s stories bare sharp truths in beautiful but harsh ways.
Set in Ireland, “Conversations with Friends” follows Frances, a young college student who performs poetry with her ex-girlfriend and now best friend Bobbi. Frances and Bobbi meet Melissa Baines, an older writer, at one of their performances, and soon become friends with her, spending a lot of time with her and her husband Nick Conway.
Frances strikes up a bond with...
Known for her biting writing, Rooney’s stories bare sharp truths in beautiful but harsh ways.
Set in Ireland, “Conversations with Friends” follows Frances, a young college student who performs poetry with her ex-girlfriend and now best friend Bobbi. Frances and Bobbi meet Melissa Baines, an older writer, at one of their performances, and soon become friends with her, spending a lot of time with her and her husband Nick Conway.
Frances strikes up a bond with...
- 5/15/2022
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
We finally have another glimpse at the next Sally Rooney adaptation. Hulu released a full-length trailer Tuesday for the upcoming miniseries “Conversations with Friends.”
The series follows Frances (played by Alison Oliver), a 21-year-old college student, as she navigates a series of relationships that force her to confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time.
At the beginning of the trailer, Oliver’s Frances admits she thought she “maybe wasn’t capable of love.”
“I thought there was something wrong with me,” she says. That is, until she lays eyes on Nick Conway (played by Joe Alwyn). That’s when she knows that isn’t true. The pair quickly fall for one another, despite the fact that he’s married.
“Conversations with Friends” also stars Sasha Lane as Bobbi Connolly and Jemima Kirke as Melissa Conway — who also develop a romantic relationship over the course of the series.
By the end of the preview,...
The series follows Frances (played by Alison Oliver), a 21-year-old college student, as she navigates a series of relationships that force her to confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time.
At the beginning of the trailer, Oliver’s Frances admits she thought she “maybe wasn’t capable of love.”
“I thought there was something wrong with me,” she says. That is, until she lays eyes on Nick Conway (played by Joe Alwyn). That’s when she knows that isn’t true. The pair quickly fall for one another, despite the fact that he’s married.
“Conversations with Friends” also stars Sasha Lane as Bobbi Connolly and Jemima Kirke as Melissa Conway — who also develop a romantic relationship over the course of the series.
By the end of the preview,...
- 4/12/2022
- by Katie Campione
- The Wrap
Joe Alwyn‘s character Nick Conway in Hulu‘s upcoming limited series Conversations With Friends—based on the Sally Rooney novel of the same name— partakes of an open relationship, but he confirms this is not the case in his real-life romance with Taylor Swift.
“I think people can do what they want and makes them happy. I’m obviously happy in a monogamous relationship,” Alwyn shared during the show’s Ctam presentation for media on Tuesday when asked whether he has ever discussed the topic with his high-profile partner. “But I think one of the interesting things about Sally’s writings and what she explores is happiness, love, desire, and intimacy outside of those constructs that we create for ourselves, whether that’s friendships or families or relationships. So I think as a conversation it’s endlessly fascinating, and one of the reasons why people love her books, and...
“I think people can do what they want and makes them happy. I’m obviously happy in a monogamous relationship,” Alwyn shared during the show’s Ctam presentation for media on Tuesday when asked whether he has ever discussed the topic with his high-profile partner. “But I think one of the interesting things about Sally’s writings and what she explores is happiness, love, desire, and intimacy outside of those constructs that we create for ourselves, whether that’s friendships or families or relationships. So I think as a conversation it’s endlessly fascinating, and one of the reasons why people love her books, and...
- 2/8/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
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