Is Normal People high art or just another teenage soap opera?

The Televisionaries

Host Louise Rugendyke is joined by Spectrum deputy editor Kylie Northover and culture editor-at-large Michael Idato to discuss the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s 2018 best-selling novel Normal People, they deliberate on what makes a great adaptation, look back at one of the most ambitious yet frustrating shows in Lost, play Telequizionaries and, as always, the critics reveal what they’re bingeing when they’re off duty.

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