tv review
Normal People
Two people flawlessly suited to one another and constitutionally incapable of pronouncing the fact across twelve entire episodes. I longed to shake them; I recognised, with some discomfort, that I was them. The silence between the messages, one long aposiopesis, is the whole of the show.
what it left me with
So much of love is forfeited to the plain sentence left unspoken while speaking it was still possible. Say the plain thing. A moment of embarrassment is a trifle beside the permanence of the regret.
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