Connell & Marianne Spend Christmas Together | Normal People On iPlayer Now

[@midsummeralmighty9373]

The way connell held marianne’s hand when she was reaching for her drink was so perfect

[@morse1883]

I totally agree; it's magic isn't it? I find it absolutely extraordinary that Tom Varey [Daisy E-J supposed wimp of a boyfriend and an awful actor besides…see ’G of Thrones’] won’t watch the intimate love scenes between Marianne and Connell in Normal People. Does he believe Daisy to be his own private property? He should be immensely proud, as she is, that the intimate scenes were so incredibly beautiful and performed exquisitely. They actually make one feel as if you are intruding into their private world as they express their love to one another. Daisy is a beautiful women and my only disappointment is that she didn’t get an Emmy for her amazing performance. Varey, you are an immature idiot. I suggest you find another job and I suggest that you Daisy, find a better boyfriend.

[@tonomaebeats]

@@morse1883 I don't believe that him not wanting to watch his girlfriend have extremely intimate sex with another man implies that he think she's his property. It would make a lot of men uncomfortable. He said he found the series 'very beautiful' though and I assume he is "immensely proud".

[@utiueo]

the way connell naturally reaches her waist at the beginning UGH wholesome

[@biancaradelfinger3338]

Right

[@redblazer29]

The last episode is my favourite episode hence. All the cues and communication mistakes that we as an audience were seeing Connell make throughout the series, he corrected all of that in 1 episode and that was so therapeutic to see.

[@mikeg5111]

That hug she gave her when they arrived. When my parents got divorced my mom was pretty much out of my life. Hugs like that from people who were like mother figures to me meant everything. It made me feel like people still were looking out for me. I feel like with Marianne that’s something she never got from her own mom.

[@beckiejacobsen7333]

Oh so true.

[@trinaq]

It's extremely telling that Marianne feels more welcomed at Connell and Lorraine's house, than with her emotionally abusive brother and distant mother. Just goes to show that sometimes, family isn't who you're related to, but who you choose to have in your life. 🎄🎁❤️

[@samjones6046]

The blood of the Covenant runs thicker than the water of the Womb

[@katebadley5464]

Happens quite a lot, I think. You don’t choose your family. You’d think sharing DNA would inextricably draw you together for life, but often it doesn’t. I love my family, but family can be overrated. Family is a certain kind of love, but for some individuals it is a flightless love without wings-perhaps even mercurial and uninspired. One can’t always be themself. It sounds so counter-intuitive, but there’s an anonymity that comes with relationships outside mi familia. Think how often family makes one hurt or unhappy. Makes one flee or become distant? How family can destroy one’s spirit, only to reinstate a kind of pseudo equilibrium later-but you may never feel on solid footing again, or sorted. The sort of cognitive dissonance and insecurity we find ourselves in as children may never leave us as adults. Some of us are lifers in this regard. The power family has over ones’ sense of self and ones’ future self. Families are high-risk. They shouldn’t be, but they are for many people. It’s a roll of the dice. A crap-shoot. Choice is the operative word. Choice is our only way out. We choose friends, compatriots, lovers and so forth. The energies people share outside familia can be extraordinary. Primal. Spirits drawn to one another by choice and not merely thrown together. There’s something liberating about finding meaningful connection with someone outside your familial purview. I can be who I am now. I’m not implicated in prior histories of who I was thought to be. Families can hold the memory of you in perpetuity. They may not see you in evolution, but in stasis. The most compelling relationships I’ve had in my life have been with people with whom I’ve shared an emotional or spiritual understanding. It was very much like “oh, there you are my friend. I turned over this (random) rock, and f@ck- there you are!” I love that we all can make meaning in our lives. That we may create our bonds, even when born into a family that would not have us. Love to you all.

[@1fromoutside]

@@katebadley5464 sadly enough, we don't choose the ones we fall in love with. I speak about love as a feeling. I also believe that loving somebody, I mean not only speaking the words of love, but proving it with actions, is a choice

[@gammadion]

I was fortunate to be very close to my family, but I do have good friends who I consider to be the same as my family, and I love them all very dearly. Blood and kinship, brothers of the womb and brothers of the sword.

[@mialia15104]

well they're not her family though, I think that's partly the reason she's sad at the end. She wishes she had that herself.

[@otherkid6034]

I love that car scene. Its actually the first time ive seen them laugh and smile like that.

[@Wxtst.3]

It felt like a blooper that they kept in. So genuine.

[@fieshtheunicorn]

I wish I could watch/read Normal People for the first time again 😢

[@PrithvirajSukale]

I like how Lorraine hugs Marrian much tighter. Comforting her like a mother.

[@cbstevp]

The scene that really kills me is after this one, where Lorraine, Connell, and Marianne go shopping and as they walk back to the car with bags of goods they bumped into Marianne's mother. She tries to ignore them but Lorraine says Happy New Year to her...and she just keeps walking without saying a word back, not even a hello to her daughter. That was so devastating. I can't imagine my mother or any family member or friend ever doing that to me. Poor Marianne at least found a new family in Connell and Lorraine. I think they love her more than her own mother ever did.

[@Circa1628]

But it does seem on point. Her emotionally distant Mother sees her daugther having a family moment with another family. It was awkward and gut wrenching. But it would be outside the box for her to what?..start screaming, start demanding answers, start apologizing to Marianne. No, her mother just walks away, pretending its not happening, like she pretends alot of things were not happening in her household

[@niamh3909]

The hug and kiss Lorraine gives them when they both arrive home😢

[@saeedanwar7559]

This was a brilliant show, i don't think I'll ever forget their story

[@DaveDGRGray]

I have this show held as one of the best things I've ever seen. There's just nothing else that comes close to it on an emotional level.

[@realcapitalist1462]

I couldn't agree more. I still come to KZbin for the clips and comments 3 years after the event! The only show recently that comes close is The English (Emily Blunt). Sarah Greene is a great actress also! See her in Rebellion (about the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland). Superb!!

[@chrysio7]

Even though this is one of the best shows I've ever seen, saying nothing comes close is just not true. You just haven't watched many other things then. Watch Six Feet Under. Best show ever made. By the end of it you be emotionally destroyed like you've never been in your life. Emotional depth of that show is out of this world and last few episodes and especially the last 10 minutes are the best ending ever in any show. Even years after watching it it's in my mind and I don't think anything will ever beat it for me. There would be some parts of the show, especially towards the end where I would just explode into crying, can't hold it and can't stop it. Whoever watched it knows what I'm talking about and I have yet to see one person who watched it and didn't feel the same way about it. It's a must watch if you like real life character focus drama.

[@dresnap5344]

what a beautiful show. Amazing acting and chemistry between the two. Truly caught lightning in a bottle.

[@dishashandilya389]

This series was actually the raw one. Like every scene was performed in such a way that it felt like actually happening. And conolle, hmmm, ya ya , hmmm was wholesome throughout the whole series. And the best thing in this series was their eye contact, and the worst one was lack of communication.

[@rajendradangi2585]

Perfect introvert show.... Especially The communication part... That was the best part for me.

[@Rew123]

The communication breakdowns were so over the top that I found them unbelievable. Communication snafu and then the show fast forwards a few months and they're both f***ing other people!? Absolutely disgusting...

[@sahirathukral]

Their laugh in the car makes my ❤ flutter and smile everytime so wholesome moment

[@spaceface79]

The little boy is so cute, especially when he is guessing that he's Dobby 😄

[@trinaq]

I know, he's so adorable, bless him! 😍💖

[@danghannahdang]

I'd love to spend Christmas with him too.

[@trinaq]

Likewise, who wouldn't want to spend Christmas with Paul Mescal and his dazzling smile and silver chain? 😍💗

[@mariarosales5240]

Lol

[@julieedmunds9258]

Me to !

[@julieedmunds9258]

Paul I ment lol

[@TerrillFischer]

I want to spend a Christmas with Lorraine. She is a great sweet Mom.

[@jerrij4242]

Lorraine was hands down my favorite character! ❤

[@kelly-annmaddox]

I'm at that point where I've watched too many clips of this thing and I need to be honest with myself and just actually watch it. 🤣

[@cbstevp]

Yeah, that just happened to me. I saw a clip by chance, watched some more, and then dived in...and stopped after episode 6 cause it was killing me. A week later I finished it all in one go, like ripping off a bandage...painful but also satisfying.

[@katieosull63]

Did you watch it? 😍

[@kelly-annmaddox]

@@katieosull63 I did! I was gripped. I couldn't make myself like the ending. 😅

[@irelandwalks3376]

The way this emulated my life being 19 makes this so real watching actors in this scene is so surreal.

[@champflowahbomb7630]

I feel like besides all the casual stuff and secretive relationship, they actually do look like a couple in love. Idk it's such a hard show for me to understand

[@marianaramirez3828]

I know. Like there's something i cant shake off about them even when they were together

[@skyefraser9494]

The book goes into way more detail, you get to hear Marianne and Connell’s inner thoughts/what’s going through their heads during scenes like this too. Hope this helps! 👍

[@Wxtst.3]

@@marianaramirez3828 Honestly I cant get over this show! I just found out about it and binged watch the whole thing. I AM SOBBING LOL

[@trinatra_]

@@skyefraser9494 I remember that one moment in the book when Connell had that odd and horrific thought of hitting her, and then later in the book by the end she goes through a relationship that indicates such abuse... I guess that would be forshadowing.

[@Lurklen]

@@trinatra_ I haven't read the book so I don't know the context, but those kinds of thoughts are so distressing. It's like your brain is just showing a possible future you hadn't considered, and it feels horrible that it came out of your own mind, even though nothing actually happened. Sometimes I think moments like that are a warning, they show you the paths you don't want to tread, and remind you that goodness is a choice, one we make every day, many times, even if we fail to notice that we could have chosen otherwise.

[@CS-pg4go]

compare this to the dinner scene with Marrianne's family... money just can't buy contentment and happiness in my opinion

[@darrenrussell1128]

The best series I’ve seen on TV in years. The characters were just so real and believable. The casting was incredible. Difficult to watch at times but loved it. Daisy and Paul will have incredible careers a dgood luck to them

[@pam0626]

I live Lorraine. What an absolute sweetheart.

[@carolinavalencia6707]

The shot of the gifts in the car b r o k e me :c idk why

[@OKjoey86]

It grounds the scene. She's finally content, loved, and wanted. The gifts reminds us of our warmest memories of Christmas and brings the previous statement a weight of emotion. I never noticed it until I read your comment. Thank you.

[@dikshant.k.5852]

What part of the video is that?

[@Rew123]

This is the clip that I saw on Facebook that inspired me to watch the series!

[@pider5736]

This series broke me completely. I've been depressed in the past but slightly got better this last year but after watching this, my depression is back again, I started using again after I finished watching the series.

[@jennaellinghuysen1301]

Hope you're doing better now

[@_dreamagination_]

i really hope for a safer place for you

[@joogullae3456]

Damn bro your will is weak. Start using because of a show come o n dude you're better and stronger than that.

[@nicolarollinson4381]

I hope I get to see the whole series, from start to finish, at some point, when I'm in the right headspace and environment. Quality

[@jesssss12]

Loraine always understood Marianne, even Connell tough Marianne was unfeeling and didn’t care.

[@benjaminsuez442]

La quimica entre ambos... ultra disfrutable a nuestros ojos... placer puro...

[@mitusmitakalita4745]

Connell nd Marianne forever❤️❤️

[@yellowwb4183]

I want a Christmas like they did :(

[@saciagal4283]

I hope you will this year! 🥰

[@TerrillFischer]

I sure could use a big Lorraine hug now. @1:38

[@WolfHuntProductions2019]

This was filmed in my hometown tubbercurry

[@saciagal4283]

I hope Sally won’t make a sequel for this. It’s perfect just the way it is.

[@juliuscepeda9655]

I absolutely agree with you. If they tried to do a follow up, it would be such a let down. The series was so perfect it’s better to just leave it alone. I think we can all just come up with our own ending to the Marianne and Connell story, and just let it be.

[@therepublicofcynica]

Something similar happened to me. I was twenty, she was eighteen. A friend of a sister. We went out, we fell in love, we split up. Over four years we split up and got back together four times then went our seperate ways. I'm sixty-six now and still think about her. My first love and the love of my life. Still

[@theimpishscribe7868]

Not me crying when Lorraine hugs her.

[@michaelclark4062]

This comes to show that family isn't about blood its about how we treat others in life 😢

[@mysteryoflove24]

christmas! 2023

[@ftlbaby]

Just a wonderful show. Prefer it to the novel.

[@kirkegaming9542]

Oh how i wish i could have my own place

[@chinnyrox2022]

Aw these two... 😢 💔

[@alyarabani3263]

I can't get enough from nomal people😣

[@nowisreal]

1:42 😍

[@stephanie7475]

I am on the hunt. Beautiful people of the internet, would you be kind to help me find the music used in the trailer? Thank you!

[@siddharth9478]

audiomachine - the fountain of consciousness

[@keskeskes2004]

One of the trailors is heavy - orla gartland

[@oscarosei1985]

Yes

[@kelb6073]

I really did think the show was moving. However, it's a little frustrating. For one, the drama is there for the sake of drama. There's nothing REALLY holding them back from being together after high school. I totally got the high school friends keeping them apart stuff..but once they were in college it got weird and a bit unrealistic.

[@CianMcsweeney]

ah it does happen, life gets in the way and takes twists and turns, not all the time of course but definitely plausible

[@itsflowerside]

oh no i don’t agree at all, they had perfectly justifiable reasons in the end for not staying together.

[@kelb6073]

@@itsflowerside What were they? Just curious.

[@kelb6073]

I'm not saying this doesn't happen in real life and it's plausible for people to not end up together. It's just I don't think THIS story portrayed it well or made it very plausible for these two. I don't see what the issue was.

[@sydney4023]

Kinda I'll say I felt the same that break up just before the summers was a little childish.. And definitely unrealistic that they didn't even tried talking to each other what actually happened

[@silvanatorrescampos8836]

Adorei!!!!

[@behrozsalehi1778]

خیلی دوست داشتم،ممنون

[@diocletianrecords1089]

I have no family.

[@Yelamar1]

Cool

[@AmazeTase]

blaze • 7 years ago best response ever 😂😂

[@Beth-pq9wl]

You will do one day. Families aren’t just who you’re related to - it’s who you choose to have in your life.

[@katieosull63]

@@AmazeTase why 7 years?💀

[@nupurpagare9520]

To the people who completed this series:- did connel ever says he is a not a religious person but he think god sent her for him in whole series if yes then which episode!!

[@dannykuhrt9144]

What

[@nicolettazenobini4632]

Nooo he doesn't say it in the series, only in the book. I watched it twice just to be 100% sure and nope, he definitely didn't say anything about God

[@saciagal4283]

Unfortunately, nah.

[@kamaand1008]

What is the name of the song in the 0:54 ?

[@yasminsouza9598]

Is there any chance of a Season 2?

[@davideparolin4105]

They won’t make it.. sadly

[@chrissleeping65]

The series covered everything from the novel so as of rn no, but that could change if the author writes a sequel or signs off on a second series. On a positive note the team behind this production are working on Sally Rooney's first novel (Normal People was her second) "Conversations with Friends" so if your a fan of this adaptation you have something new to look forward to @ least.

[@trevorbeacom6187]

The driving scenes through the town are a ripp off of the old 1980s esb and "coming home"

[@divyakrishnamalik3933]

I don't remember this in book....

[@habibafarouk3822]

it was in the book, check again. she spent christmas with him and i even remember one of his little cousins blushed when he saw marianne for the first time

[@malenaosiodotti1475]

what episode is????

[@mikoajmanko3564]

Lorraine MVP

[@mariuszubranczyk3690]

Piadel

[@MattiaPiola]

OH, WOW, WHAT A GREAT WAY TO END THE SHOW, SUCH A BEAUTIFUL WAY TO END IT ABSOLUTELY NO NEED FOR OTHER SCENES AFTER THIS ONE. GREAT ENDING, THAT'S ALL. 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲

[@JamesJoyce12]

amazing how you can talk about the book or the series and 99% of females have no clue how broken Marianne actually is

[@thegenzcompass2526]

This show is so overhyped. Like a bunch of people fornicating with deep personal, mental issues. The only appropiate time to have sex is within marriage. All this is a waste of time

[@nadyanugraha284]

Stay being a compass

[@thegenzcompass2526]

​@@nadyanugraha284 and stay being a hot potato mess, why you mad?

[@nadyanugraha284]

The Gen Z Compass all I said was stay being a compass, I’m not the preachy one

[@thegenzcompass2526]

@@nadyanugraha284 Yeah, and all I'm saying hot potato is keep being the vapid hot potato you are, since when did hot potatoes know how to use KZbin?

[@nadyanugraha284]

The Gen Z Compass wtf was that comeback 😂 ok u stay being a narrow minded compass and i’ll stay being a hot potato mess

[@toyang..]

"it's so nice.. proper christmas" like she has never experienced it before 🥲