It's likely there was never going to be a perfect adaptation of Normal People, Sally Rooney's excellent best-selling novel detailing the complicated but tender relationship between two Irish teens, but Hulu's attempt, which is now streaming, is a valiant effort.
Faithfully adapted for TV by Rooney with writers Alice Birch and Mark O'Rowe, Normal People stars Daisy Edgar-Jones as Marianne, a quiet and intelligent teen from an affluent family who's starved for love by her widowed, emotionally unavailable mother and abusive older brother.
Although she doesn't fit in at school, she flourishes once she goes to Trinity College in Dublin and is free from her family's influence and the yoke of small town society.